“This is a little bit like busting a street drug dealer to get at the Colombian drug cartel,”
Hubert Humphrey
“The artifacts are ... the treasures of Peru's most famous pre-Colombian city. On the other hand, Yale has taken care of these pieces for over 90 years.... They are not the 'bad guys' here. They are a well-meaning scientific organization, not looters.”
Chris Heaney
“Oh, it was just unbelievable. I knew there were Colombian people in Miami, but I didn't know there were that many. It was fun, and they motivated me.”
Camilo Villegas
“Wellstone was expected to receive a lot of information (from the human-rights groups) about violence committed by the Colombian army, ... If he would be taking that back to the Senate floor, that actually helps the PR campaign of the rebels. It is a strain to think they would want to kill him.”
Carlos Salinas
“The (Colombian) government's ambitious eradication campaign, to date, has met with heavy resistance from traffickers and armed insurgents,”
Madeleine Albright
“It used to be like, 'I'm Colombian' or 'I'm from Mexico. Now, it's like, 'I'm Hispanic, I'm Hispanic.”
Laura Castro
“A Colombian court issued its verdict that confirmed what we believed from the start: that they were three IRA terrorists, explosives experts, who came to Colombia to train”
Francisco Santos