Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 16:17:31 CST
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Subject: Wkly News Update on the Americas #266 3/5/95
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Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
Weekly News Update on the Americas, Issue #266, 5 March 1995
uncooperative partnersin war on drugs
US President Clinton decided on Mar. 1 that even though Colombia,
Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay had not satisfied US conditions as
cooperative partners in the US war on drug traffickers, for
vital reasons of national interest
they would not be
decertified.
[El Diario-La Prensa 3/2/95 from AP, AFP]
Decertification would have led the administration to halt US aid
and opposed development loans from international lending
agencies. US Congress has the power to overturn the president's
decision within 30 days. Republicans on the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee had recommended that Clinton should
decertify
Colombia. [Washington Post 3/2/95]
The Colombian government announced two days later on Mar. 3 that
it had arrested Jorge Eliezer Rodriguez Orejuela, whose older
brothers Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela are suspected
leaders of the Cali drug cartel. Colombia claims the younger
brother is one of the cartel's leading members, though US Embassy
officials called him a mid-level lieutenant
who was believed to
have been a liaison for the cartel in the US. [New York Times
3/4/95]
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