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...covered opium-eradication programs in the 1970s, to Colombia's La Guajira Peninsula, which I visited late last year, the mark of the drug trade is the littered wreckage everywhere of smugglers' planes that didn't make it." The drug trade has apparently also wrecked the image of Colombians. Says Diederich: "A Colombian told me that because of the way U.S. Customs officials deal with his countrymen, he feels like a fourth-class citizen whenever he has to present his passport. Dope has marked every Colombian, even the law-abiding ones...
High on the bankers' 1984 worry list were their loans to Latin American nations, which staggered under a $350 billion debt burden. In June representatives of the debtor countries huddled in Cartagena, Colombia, raising fears that they would form a cartel to bargain collectively for easier terms. Warned Colombian President Belisario Betancur: "We hear the far-off thunder of violent drums. We feel the winds of storms." Despite such rhetoric, most of the debtors chose negotiation over confrontation. Mexico persuaded the banks to stretch out its payments on $48 billion in loans, originally due between now and 1990, over...
...mystery trilogy that, along with The Lord of the Rings and the Gormenghast books, galvanized the spirit like a Disney Das Kapital. In Dune, rival masters from four planets battled for control of "melange," an addictive spice that conferred powers of prophecy and transcendence. Here was an inter-galactic Colombian drug war, with a stash of celestial LSD waiting to be harnessed by a teen-age messiah-Holden Caulfield maturing into Che Guevara...
...Nobody is going to run me out of this town," Tambs vowed. "I'm staying to continue the fight together with the Colombian government to get rid of the dope business." Nonetheless, State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg announced that the U.S. would temporarily be "reducing our official profile in Colombia." At least a dozen of the embassy's 187 U.S. employees left the country last week with their families. Americans are not the only ones at risk. Says Tambs: "I have information that all the Colombian Cabinet ministers and the President himself have received death threats ever since...
...Colombian drug crackdown began to pick up speed last April, when Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was murdered in retaliation for his strenuous antidrug efforts. The assassination, the first ever of a Cabinet-level official in Colombia's history, shocked the nation and persuaded President Belisario Betancur Cuartas to abandon his reluctance to enforce an existing extradition treaty with the U.S. Since then, 78 alleged drug traffickers have been requested by the U.S., and Betancur has signed extradition papers for six of them. According to the treaty, however, the Colombians must first face charges and serve sentences in their...