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Carlos Lehder Rivas, one of the founders of the Medellin drug cartel, was % supposed to be the U.S. government's star witness in the Miami trial of Panama's General Manuel Noriega, who is charged with drug trafficking and money laundering. But the prosecution's plans were turned upside down last week when Lehder, 42, claimed that the cartel gave $10 million to the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contras...
Preening for the camera in a white suit and Panama hat, an unctuous TV talk- show host named Agamemnon tries to prove his credentials as a Latin Lothario by reading letters from female viewers inviting him to "invade me, blockade me, dictate me." An amber-skinned transvestite named Manny the Fanny gyrates to a dance-club hit while recalling her Krazy Glue revenge on an unfaithful boyfriend. A punchy Peruvian ex-boxer, pressed to name a famous Hispanic, searches the blank canvas of his mind. "William Shakesperez," he intones. "He wrote Macho Do About Nothing and The Merchant of Venezuela...
...movie star who runs for President? No, not that one. Think salsa. Besides his string of hit albums (In Search of America, Nothing but the Truth), RUBEN BLADES has appeared in The Milagro Beanfield War and Mo' Better Blues. Now he may run for President of his native Panama. A committee called In Search of Panama has lined up 500 supporters so far. They say Blades has the ability, integrity and international prestige that isn't found in many homegrown politicians. What's more, he's great at a party...
Stone, who has taken pictures in such war zones as Ethiopia and Panama, sensed that in some quarters, respect for Saddam may be wearing thin, not only because of losses in the gulf war but also because of the toll of the earlier eight-year conflict with Iran. A taxi driver whose two brothers died in that war told Stone that he hated Saddam, but quickly added, "This conversation did not take place...
American intelligence gathering is also hobbled by the familiar Washington turf wars, especially the competition between the CIA and the various branches of military intelligence. Some blame that rivalry for the fact that during the 1989 invasion of Panama, American troops spent four days locating General Manuel Noriega. CIA defenders contend that the agency was kept in the dark about the invasion until a few hours beforehand, thus limiting what it could do. "There is too much cowboyism going on, too much effort by agencies to duplicate the work," says New Mexico Representative Bill Richardson, a member of the House...