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...cartel, which supplies 80% of the world's cocaine, has come to be recognized as a law unto itself. Its vast financial resources and revenues, which run to the billions, have enabled the cocaine lords to wield immense political power. "Drug money has contaminated the whole system," says Colonel Orlando Pena Angarita, commander of Colombia's investigative police force. "There isn't anywhere that is clean anymore." Reflecting the concern, an antidrug program unveiled in January by Colombia's President, Virgilio Barco Vargas, is called "Decree for the Defense of Democracy...
...expected Barco's measures to cripple a criminal enterprise that has used bribery, threats and murder to become a law unto itself. Over the past several years, a Justice Minister, scores of policemen, 21 judges and more than a dozen journalists who refused to be bought off have been murdered. In the case of Ochoa, a leader of the Medellin cartel who is wanted in the U.S., Hoyos was investigating a group of officials, including two judges, who are suspected of accepting bribes to help Ochoa walk out of prison. "Who's in control in Colombia?" asks Ann Wrobleski, head...
...back. Some have suggested that Hart must have a Messiah complex and that's why he's re-entered the race. True enough, Hart said that the main reason he's going again unto the breach is that he has "a sense of new direction and a set of new ideas that our country needs that no one else represents." No one else, he said, has filled the gaping hole in the political landscape left by his absence...
...their own traditional art with a more consuming fury than the English did on their medieval heritage. The destruction began in a small way with the random acts of zealots like the Lollards. They were enraged by the apparent contradiction between the Second Commandment ("Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image") and the "idolatrous" cult of statues of the Holy Family and the saints set up in English churches, jeweled and gilt and encrusted with innumerable votive offerings. The church's answer was that you did not worship the image itself; you worshiped the Virgin through her image...
Pilgrims go to the Plain of Arafat, hallowed for its ties to Abraham, because of the injunction in the holy Koran: "And proclaim unto mankind the hajj. They will come unto thee on foot and on every lean camel, from every deep ravine...