Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Escobar narrowly escaped capture in an army raid on one of his estates last year, Colombian officials suspected that he might have been tipped off by Medina. A military surveillance team subsequently was assigned to tail the general. The spying operation reportedly established ties between Medina and both Escobar and another drug baron, Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, nicknamed "El Mexicano." Apparently not certain that the evidence would hold up in court, the government allowed Medina to retire. Two days after Medina's successor, General Miguel Antonio Gomez Padilla, took over, the National Police launched Operation Primavera, the most successful strike...
Immediately after the raid, the government announced it had found 200 automatic weapons and 30,000 rounds of ammunition in Hernandez's house. Hernandez and his colleagues were quickly flown to Mexico City, where they were arraigned on charges of illegally possessing weapons, resisting arrest and killing a police officer...
...raid, coming just over a month after President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office following a campaign that promised major political and economic reforms, fueled speculation that Hernandez's arrest was the government's opening shot in its efforts to control the country's powerful unions. For much of its 59 years, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) has given considerable autonomy to union leaders in exchange for industrial peace and delivering votes at election time...
...when all else fails, a large can of Raid...
...course, the stockholders, especially large ones, don't do badly either. Harvard, for instance, will not only see an approximately 40 percent return on the $20-40 million it invested in KKR's takeover fund, but being in the interesting position of helping raid a company they own stock in, they will get huge returns from those holdings when the new owners sell off parts. The closing of the takeover deal earlier this month meant that RJR stock was worth $109 per share--quite a bit more than than the $56 per share it was worth on the market before...