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Protesters, who called their event "Biodevastation 2000," dressed as mutant vegetables, cloned monsters and monarch butterflies to demand a variety of restrictions on biotechnology, including an end to genetically modified organisms, ownership and patents over life forms and corporate control over individual consumption...
...various points with drug barons. Today, to be sure, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia may have become the richest Marxist guerrilla faction in history by extracting some $100 million a year in "taxes" from drug producers and traffickers operating in the southern half of Colombia, which they control. (That must be a relief for Colombia's peasantry, of course, since it was the impoverished campesinos themselves who, along with assorted kidnap victims, had been the guerrillas' prime revenue source before the cocaine boom...
...dense jungles and swamps of the south. And its improbably large treasury has fueled the movement's growth into a well-armed nationwide fighting force of some 17,000. The guerrillas, who are holding some 500 members of the government's security forces prisoner in their zone of control, are believed to have their own helicopters, and Colombians who are stopped at their roadblocks on national highways have reported having their driver's licenses entered into a computer containing a database of the country's bank accounts, to determine whether they'd be worth kidnapping - still a lucrative sideline...
...Attempts by the Pastrana government to negotiate a peace deal with the rebels have broken down, after the guerrillas violated a cease-fire agreement by expanding their operations well beyond the south, where the government recognized their control. "Pastrana is hoping that when the FARC see this massive influx of U.S. aid to his government, they'll get weak-kneed and be willing to get serious about negotiating a truce," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "After all, this war has been going on for more than 40 years and that gives the FARC a strong vested interest...
...campaign to keep Elian in the U.S. is unlikely to give the last word to lawyers or legislators. "At stake for the Cuban-American National Foundation is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall - and as arbiter of Washington's Cuba policy," says Padgett. "Its authoritarian control has weakened in recent years, as has public support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba." And even as the anti-Castro exiles use the Elian case as a make-or-break campaign to revive their fortunes, it's working wonders for the dictator they love to hate. "Elian...