BOGOTA, Colombia -- The brutal slaying of two judges and 10 judicial employees by a rural death squad in January jolted Colombians with the frightening realization that their country has become a land where the law of the gun prevails.
BOGOTA, Colombia -- The biggest battle ever waged against Colombia’s cocaine barons has undermined their strength in the last week, and authorities are tantalizingly close to victory, according to American and Colombian officers involved in the fight.
GUATEMALA CITY -- Late in the afternoon of Aug. 1, a car carrying two men and a large green canvas suitcase was waved through security checkpoints directly onto the tarmac of La Aurora airport, where a commercial jet was being loaded for a flight to Miami.
BOGOTA, Colombia -- It is an easy picture to paint: Colombia, a country with billions of dollars in cocaine wealth; massive, opulently furnished houses; huge cattle ranches; overdressed men and women draped in gold and emeralds; everyone driving a Mercedes-Benz or a BMW.
