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Author: | France, M. Burnett, V. |
Title: | Corporate America's Colombian connection |
Journal: | Business Week
1997 : DEC 8, VOL. 3540:870, p. 42-43 |
Index terms: | FINANCE MONEY AMERICA |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | How "peso-brokers" use U.S. manufacturers to wash the narcotics cartel's cash. To her neighbors in Cucuta, a city of 480,000 in Northern Colombia, Myriam Arana appeared to be the picture of upper-middle-class respectability. Married to a prominent obstetrician, she had two teenage daughters and owned a stylish clothing boutique in a downtown hotel. But Arana, 46, also ran another, far less reputable business. She helped the Caly cartel and other local drug gangs launder millions of dollars. |
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