Citations:Colombian necktie

English citations of Colombian necktie

• 1981: David Thoreau, The Santanic Condition: A Novel, page 132 (Arbor House; →ISBN, 9780877952749)

  Guillermo’s long body was sprawled across the double bed. It took him a minute to realize what had been done. He had read reports of the “Colombian necktie” but had never expected to see one, […]

• 1988, August 15^th: New York Magazine, volume 21, № 32, page 22

  The first indication that the rules of the game had changed dawned on us in 1982. In February of that year, on the Grand Central Parkway, the eighteen-month-old daughter and the four-month-old son of a Colombian drug-dealer were destroyed by shotgun blasts and automatic weapons, after their parents had been blown away. One Dominican dealer was forced to watch the disembowelment of his wife before being shotgunned to death. In Jackson Heights, according to New York Newsday, the favored method of execution is now the “Colombian necktie”: The throat is cut and the tongue pulled through the slit to hang down upon the chest. The drug gangs are not misunderstood little boys. Their violence is at once specific and general: When they get rid of a suspected informer, they send chilling lessons to many others.

• 1990: Douglas Terman, Enemy Territory, page 331 (Bantam Books; →ISBN, 9780553286137)

  His body had been found two weeks earlier by the DEA on the MacArthur Causeway leading over to the Beach, the concrete beneath his crumpled body soaking up blood, his tongue hanging out in a Colombian necktie.

• 1994: Ronald K. Siegel, Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia, page 276 (Crown; →ISBN, 9780517592397)

  The agents told me about Mario’s friends. If you betray them, they kill your family and give you a “Colombian necktie.” First they spread-eagle you on a vertical board and slit your neck vertically, from the chin to the collarbone. This severs the larynx and prevents you from screaming. Then they pull your tongue through the slit and watch as you slowly strangle.

• 1997: Felicia Okeke-Ibezim, O. J. Simpson: The Trial of the Century, page 36 (Ekwike Books & Publishing; →ISBN, 9780966159806)

  The defense held that Nicole’s murder was as a result of drug deal gone sour (drug murder) or a Mafia contract killing. Supporting this, they claimed that Nicole must have borrowed money from one of Colombian drug Lords and so fell victim to Colombian necktie or necklace?

• 2000: B. J. Whalen, Justifiable Homicide, page 243 (Ballantine Books; →ISBN, 9780345432025)

  A young girl, age eleven, had been slashed across the throat and had her tongue pulled through the cut, reminiscent of the Colombian necktie.

• 2002: Betty Bradford Byers, The Big Payback, page 109 (iUniverse; →ISBN

  Angelo found a parking spot just down the street from Giovanni’s, his favorite restaurant. He had already decided he wanted veal scalopini for dinner. He was deep in thought when two masked men, dressed in black, stepped in front of him. He heard the click as the switchblade opened; saw the glint of the knife as it sank into his stomach.
  “Punk,” the attacker said.
  His accomplice rushed in behind Angelo, jerked his head back and slashed his neck. Blood gushed from the severed artery, and he slumped to the ground. The first assailant decorated Angelo’s chest with the proverbial “Colombian necktie” in which his tongue was pushed down through his gullet and pulled through the slash in his neck — a popular mobster tactic. They disappeared into the night, leaving him dead, just a few feet from the door of Giovanni’s.

• 2003: Robin Kirk, More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America’s War in Colombia, page 26 (Public Affairs; →ISBN, 9781586481049)

  There was the Colombian necktie (corte de corbata), when the killer cut a deep groove under the jawline of the victim and pulled the tongue muscle down and through it, so that it lay like a necktie on the chest.

• 2007: Howard Silverstone and Michael Sheetz, Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts, page 95 (Wiley-IEEE; →ISBN

  Ruling their territory through unprecedented violence, the Colombian Cocaine cartels turned the streets of Miami, New York, and Los Angeles into a new “wild west.”²⁵ Bringing with them horrific phrases such as the “Colombian Necktie,”²⁶ the narcotraficantes of the late 1970s and 1980s revolutionized the way in which desertion and infidelity to the organization were punished.

• 2009: Stephen Schneider, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, page 504 (John Wiley and Sons; →ISBN

  What also distinguished the Colombian cartels’ use of violence was their strategy of targeting the family members of their rivals and government officials. Not only was murder frequently used, but the methods were often quite sadistic, such as the carte de corbata, the notorious “Colombian necktie” in which the victim’s throat is cut longitudinally and the tongue is pulled through to hang like a tie.