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CAPTURED. BENJAMIN ARELLANO FELIX, 50, Mexico's biggest druglord; in Puebla, Mexico. He confirmed that his brother and partner, Ramon, 36, was killed in a February shootout. They ruled the Tijuana cartel, the top traffickers in Mexico's $30 billion drug trade...
...This is an arrest that no one had thought was possible," U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration czar Asa Hutchinson exulted when he got word of the capture of Tijuana Cartel kingpin Benjamin Arellano-Felix. "No one has come close to the power, violence and dominance that family has had in the last decade and a half...
...simple. Give each team a salary cap, with a twist: Big-market teams with fat local TV contracts (or anyone else with itchy purse strings) may spend, say, 25 percent more if they so choose. But no more spiraling salaries and free-agent bidding wars. Organized baseball is a cartel by definition, and a viable entertainment concern only in its entirety. Let all its teams at least play in the same ballpark...
Acknowledging that it no longer controls the market, opec wants oil producers outside the 11-nation cartel to share its pain. Chief among those countries is Russia, the world's second-largest producer. If Russia (along with Norway and Mexico) doesn't cooperate, OPEC has hinted there will be no production cuts. That could mean a price war that would drive crude oil down to around $10 a barrel - well below the $25 average that OPEC favors. So far, Russia has agreed only to a 50,000-barrel...
World-weary Fernando (German Jaramillo) has come home to Medellin "to die." This does not stop him from taking up with an angel-faced teenage killer named Alexis (Anderson Ballesteros). The kid was trained by the drug cartel but will off anyone who offends him or his lover. As deaths pile up, they have a comic effect; love apparently means never leaving the safety on. Full of sacrilegious rant, absurdist affectlessness and pop social criticism, this film plays like an old B movie: narratively improvisational, delusionally pretentious, weirdly watchable...