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Title: | US CA: Column: The FARC And The NYSE |
Published On: | 1999-08-11 |
Source: | San Jose Mercury News (CA) |
Fetched On: | 2008-09-05 23:57:36 |
THE FARC AND THE NYSE
On the same day in June that the Colombian government was announcing that it
would henceforth count cocaine farming (estimated at $1 billion a year) in
its official economic figures, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange
went to the remote village of La Machaca to meet with a top commander of the
Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which the U.S. State
Department has labeled a terrorist group. NYSE Chairman Richard Grasso
reportedly invited the leader, Raul Reyes, to New York to learn more about
international markets.
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