"The income of the drug barons is greater than the American defense budget. With this financial power they can suborn the institutions of the state, and if the state resists they can purchase the firepower to outgun it."
- Judge Gomez Hurtado, Colombian High Court, Father of the Columbian constitution, in 1993.
"Álvaro Gómez was murdered by gunmen on November 2, 1995 in Bogota while exiting the Sergio Arboleda University where he was a professor. It was later suggested that Gómez was extrajudicially killed by former members of the Colombian National Police."
- Wikipedia
The US defense budget is currently about 500 billion; I don't know what it was in 1993 but the income of the drug barons probably rose as it rose.
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