More important. he complains that Colombians and Colombian organizations tend to be singled out by United States law enforcement agencies for harassment and suspicion." To support his statement Mr. Lloreda says "I just got a call today from Atlantic City. Of the 10.000 Illegal aliens In the city. the district attorney decided to crack down on the 500 Colombians. lie didnt do anything about the Europeans. the Asians. the Africans. Just the Colombians because theyre supposedly all drug dealers." Another case cited by Ambassador Llpreda is that of a Boeing 747 owned by Avianca. the Colombian airline. that was seized earlier this year. The Ambassador reported that "United States Customs officials found cocaine in the nightly shipment of flowers from Bogota. and even though the Colombian police had alerted Customs that the narcotics were on the plane. they impounded the plane anyway. forcing Avlanca to give Customs the right to revoke its flying rights here if another case occurred." A more pleasant task for Ambassador Lloreda was to announce a $1billion loan by a syndicate of 200 private banks. led by Chemical Bank of New York. to develop oil and coal facilities in Colombia. "It was one of the largest extensions of new credit by American banks to a Latin America country in 2 years. and Colombia could get that much credil because it had subjected itself to some very close monitoring and austerity measures recommended by the International Monetary Fund." Mr.
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Colombians are being singled out as drug dealers.