Pubdate: Wed, 11 Aug 1999
Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Section: News Of The Wierd
Copyright: 1999 Mercury Center
Contact:  http://www.sjmercury.com/
Author: Chuck Shepherd,  Title By Newshawk



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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