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Word: romero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home in the affluent El Poblado section of the city when at least eight gunmen riddled his car with bullets. Both Pelaez and his driver were killed. The same day, unidentified assailants fire bombed the summer homes of two prominent Medellin business executives. The attacks came as Eduardo Martinez Romero, the drug lieutenant extradited to the U.S., pleaded not guilty in an Atlanta court and was ordered held without bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia Truce or Consequences? | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...operation went off with military precision. At about 6 p.m. Wednesday, officers from the Dijin, a police special-operations team, hustled Eduardo Martinez Romero out the back door of a maximum-security Bogota jail while other officers distracted reporters and photographers gathered in front. Martinez, wanted in Atlanta in connection with a $1.2 billion money-laundering scheme, was taken aboard a jet owned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and flown to his long-postponed rendezvous with U.S. justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia Passing the Extradition Test | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

Returning Players to Watch: Mark Johnson (QB), Dave Clark (FB), Rob Hibbard (P), Kevin Luensmann (DT), Carl Romero (PK), Chris Casturo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ivy League | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

Returning Players to Watch: Mark Johnson (QB), Dave Clark (FB), Rob Hibbard (P), Kevin Luensmann (DT), Carl Romero (PK), Chris Casturo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ivy League | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...were quickly released -- by Friday they had nabbed only six people on the U.S. Justice Department's 120-name "long list" of those wanted for questioning, and not one of the suspects on a most-wanted list of twelve supplied to the Bogota government. The biggest catch: Eduardo Martinez Romero, believed to be a financial adviser to the Medellin cartel. He is one of several people indicted in the U.S. for involvement in an alleged $1.2 billion money-laundering scheme, in which drug money was passed off as the supposed profits of jewelry and gold-trading businesses. Martinez is described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Too Far | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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