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...Helen Rodriguez, a secretary and union member,said she came to the rally because she wasconcerned about the benefits cuts...
...Rodriguez brothers are a study in opposites. Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, the younger one, has a driven, type-A personality, so obsessive about the family's multibillion-dollar empire that he monitors the electric bills and company magazine subscriptions. Gilberto, 56, is the smooth chairman of the board, more cerebral, with a fondness for the Colombian poets, a passion for soccer, and friends in high and public places. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials have long felt, however, that Gilberto's intelligence has been overrated. Believed to be the leader of the powerful Cali cocaine cartel, Gilberto, who says he is merely...
...mention prosperity. DEA officials estimate that the Rodriguez brothers oversee 80% of the cocaine trafficking in the world, with profits of about $7 billion last year, and say that they have also begun to make deep inroads into the heroin market, previously dominated by Southeast Asian drug lords. Although Miguel remains at large, the Colombian government crowed over Gilberto's arrest. "This is the beginning of the end of the Cali cartel," announced President Ernesto Samper Pizano. A press conference at police headquarters in Bogota, where Rodriguez was paraded about like war booty, had the air of a New Year...
...arrest of Rodriguez comes four days after federal attorneys in Miami unsealed a sweeping 161-page indictment against the Rodriguez brothers' vast operation in the U.S. The brothers are among 62 defendants, including six prominent defense attorneys, accused of varying charges, including racketeering and conspiracy. TIME has learned that the Justice Department is still probing the conduct of at least half a dozen more U.S. defense lawyers who work on drug cases...
Just three days before the arrest of Cali chieftain Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela in Colombia, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo discussed his nation's involvement in the drug war with a group of TIME journalists. Meeting with Zedillo in his office at the Los Pinos presidential residence were managing editor James R. Gaines, editor at large Karsten Prager and Latin American bureau chief Laura Lopez...