Bamboo Entwined With Moroccan Textiles
A structure at the Venice Biennale unites local craftsmanship, farming and architecture.
The Majlis, an Arabic word that means communal gathering place, is a temporary structure that is part of the Venice Architecture Biennale. The structure is made of bamboo and wrapped in handwoven Moroccan textile.Credit.Caravane Earth
By Farah Nayeri
May 20, 2021, 5:02 a.m. ET
The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore is one of the architectural jewels of Venice. Designed by the Renaissance master Andrea Palladio, it sits prettily on the edge of an island opposite St. Mark’s Square.
For the next six months, the gardens behind the church will host an edifice that could not be more of a contrast: a temporary structure made of bamboo and wrapped in handwoven Moroccan textile.
George Jung, Who Made Millions Smuggling Cocaine, Dies at 78
Part of the Medellín drug cartel, he was imprisoned multiple times and was later played by Johnny Depp in the 2001 movie “Blow.”
The cocaine smuggler George Jung at a screening of “Blow,” a movie about his life, in 2018. “I don’t call myself a gangster,” he once said. “I’m an outlaw.” Credit.Greg Doherty/Getty Images
May 9, 2021
George Jung, a cocaine smuggler who, at the height of his criminal career in the 1970s and ’80s, reaped millions of dollars a day from running drugs through the notorious Medellín cartel, died on Wednesday in hospice care in his hometown, Weymouth, Mass. He was 78.
George Jung dead: Real-life inspiration behind Johnny Depp film Blow dies aged 78
George Jung, known as Boston George, served 20 years in prison after building a huge trafficking business alongside Pablo Escobar. He was eventually released from jail in 2017, and died with his wife by his side
Michael MoranAudience Writer
Updated
George Jung made millions of dollars from his vast criminal enterprise (Image: Getty Images)
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THE HIGH LIFE
Wild life of George Jung who helped Pablo Escobar flood the US with cocaine & inspired film Blow as he dies at 78
Updated: May 6 2021, 2:41 ET
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DRUG dealer George Jung was a high-flying cocaine smuggler who helped Pablo Escobar bring planeloads of the drug into the US.
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Medellin cartel cocaine traffickers arrested by Colombian police in 1988Credit: Getty - Contributor
Nicknamed Boston George and El Americano, Jung was one of the kingpins at the head of the cartel responsible for flooding the United States with Colombian cocaine in the 1980s.
He made close to $100 million pumping illicit substances from South to North America while making Escobar the world s most powerful druglord.
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