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...hunched over computers, rifles hanging off the backs of chairs as they answered their e-mail. (FARC's commanders maintain their own Hotmail accounts.) I was introduced to several FARC commanders, but none was as colorful as Julian Conrado, a balladeer with a goofy mustache who manages to rhyme "Americano" with "imperio romano." He's lost three guitars in battle, he says proudly. "One of my guitars was held up by a Colombian general as a war trophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream, E-mail and Casual Sex: Life Among Colombia's Guerrillas | 9/7/2000 | See Source »

...BUSH] "[We will] tell families from the barrios of L.A. to the Rio Grande Valley: 'El sueno americano es para...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Fellow Americanos... | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Forro Ibero Americano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everything Under the Sun | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

While her parents Cary and Gary didn't play, her younger sister Laura, 16, is following in the two older sisters' footsteps at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With Hart Still Intact, W. Volley. Seeks Title | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...Cuba, Vesco was a creature of legendary largesse, and the news of el americano's arrest whipped through the rumor mills. When he settled on the island in 1982, Vesco, who had been known to fire his American employees simply for arriving late for work, was so incensed at the tardiness of the bodyguards assigned to him by the government that he gave all of them Rolexes to keep accurate time. Last week the only security guard at his empty white-washed house at 2114 204th Street, in Havana's elegant Atabey suburb, turned journalists away, saying, "If you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROBERT VESCO: THE PREDATOR'S FALL | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

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