DRUG WARS The Rule of the Game
"Our message to the drug cartels is this," George Bush told the nation last September when he unveiled his ad- ...
AN ACTIVIST FROM BARRANCABERMEJA SPEAKS
"THE 1980S HAVE SEEN A REAL RESUR- gence of direct struggle. When the people decided to go on strike, to ...
DOWN TO THE LAST DROP
COCAINE IS NOT THE ONLY DRUG COLOMBIA exports. Its principal legal source of foreign exchange is coffee. More than 300,000 ...
THE MILITARY MIND
General Rafael Pena Rios retired fiom active military service at the end of 1987 at the age of 49. He ...
PANAMA The Other Side of Midnight
I thought it was thunder. But the television set me straight. Channel 2, which belongs to the government, was announcing, ...
THE PEACE PROCESS
IN 1982, THE NEWLY-ELECTED GOVERNMENT of Belisario Betancur set Colombian politics on an un- charted course. Although Colombian elites had ...
COLOMBIA CRACKS UP
LAST AUGUST, FOLLOWING THE ASSASSI- nation of Colombia's front-running presidential can- didate Luis Carlos Galen, George Bush went on television ...
