Word: brotherism
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...probably about 12. That's when she was doing fashion stuff and her name became much more talked about. I'd met famous people as a kid, like Charlie Chaplin when he returned from exile, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol. What was cool about my parents was, my brother and I were expected to sit at the adult table. There was never a kids' table. To me, the greatest privilege of the way I grew up was realizing at a very young age that these people are just as unhappy as everyone else. Once you realize that, it frees...
...Your brother committed suicide when you were 21. How do you handle something like that? I don't know that you do handle it. Suicide is such a strange thing. It's still shrouded in mystery and, for some people, shame because of their religious beliefs or whatever reason. It's like someone steps out of the shadows and stabs you with a stiletto. Then you have to figure out how to move on from there...
Your specialty seems to be war and disaster. Why? I sort of numbed myself after my dad's death and certainly after my brother's death. I wanted to go places where the pain outside would match the pain that I was feeling inside. War seemed like really my only option...
...tabloidesque story is straight out of Hollywood: a politician's son is wheeled into the hospital after a night of partying, only a month after his father, a leading politician, was gunned down by his brother. The doctors admit that the prodigal son's blood is swimming with traces of cocaine, opiates, barbiturates and cannabis, among other substances. It's on the cover of every paper, with one daily dedicating half its front page to a graphic-novel style recreation of the fateful, bacchanalian night of partying...
...mouth to mouth," explains Martínez. "One person would tell a friend or relative about the money he was earning, and that person would convince the next." Indeed, there is only one Afinsa agent in Dosbarrios, and everyone knows him. "Raúl Rodríguez is the brother of my husband's friend," says Rosario Suárez, 35. "At first I was skeptical, but he came to our house, and I talked to other people who had invested with him, and I was persuaded." Rodríguez describes himself as "one of the victims" and says that...