Pablo Escobar, for ex- ample, claims that the "nation's face has been disfigured the imperialist boot of the [extradition] treaty." Such views have broad appeal in Colombia.
What Colombia and other Latin nations need most to combat the cocaine mafia is not weapons or helicopters and not stepped up extraditions, Lee concludes, but stronger and more effective courts, po- lice, and other civilian institutions.
'Underclass" by Charles Murray, in The Sunday Times Maga- zine (Nov. 26,...