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...coincidentally, Ryder's godfather. Thurman's father is a highly regarded scholar of Buddhism. Charles Bukowski was a frequent houseguest at the DiCaprios' when Leonardo was growing up in Los Angeles. The actor's best childhood friend was Abbie Hoffman's son. And Sarah Jessica Parker grew up idolizing Cesar Chavez and attending peace marches with her parents...
Such debates have their roots in the tenure of the previous Colombian President, Cesar Gaviria Trujillo. His credentials as a drug fighter are undisputed: he ordered the bloody and ultimately successful 17-month campaign against the Medellin cartel. Yet few would deny the vast, perhaps controlling influence of surviving drug lords. While the Medellin cowboys attempted reign by Uzi, shooting four presidential candidates in 1989, the Rodriguezes and fellow members of their cartel are known as the gentle dons. They rely on the quiet clout that a profit estimated by DEA at $7 billion a year can buy. The money...
...Cesar R. Conde...
Samper, 43, a former economics minister in the government of President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, quickly denied that he had taken money from drug lords. His contention was supported by Giraldo, a longtime go-between for the Cali cartel, who said the Cali bosses had offered funds to both the Samper and Pastrana campaigns but were turned down. Colombians were not only skeptical, but angry that the tapes, which had come into President Gaviria's hands several days before the election, were not released earlier...
This movie, as much as it is billed as such, is not about sex. In the presence of any human tragedy, the basic human traits, and not the source of the tragedy, make the drama. "Savage Nights" has received so much acclaim, including a host of Cesar Awards (the French Oscars), because it is the first film to confront the harsh, raw, smarmy side living with AIDS. It shows the character without apology, living the melodrama that we are supposed to believe is their lives...