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...holdings: they now own extensive real estate in Florida, half of the approximately 200 high-rises along Panama City's oceanfront, and a variety of small businesses and financial institutions, like currency-exchange houses, through which they can launder their profits. "These guys don't rob banks," says Craig Vangrasslek, who studied the drug industry on a Fulbright scholarship in Bogota. "They buy them." Soon the drug pipeline was operating as smoothly and as punctually as a regularly scheduled airline. Almost every day, soon after dawn, Colombians in sleek twin-engine Cessnas descend upon remote airstrips carved...
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