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Many observers believe that newly elected Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes will ease the Mano Duro policy and, instead, implement social programs aimed at dissuading the country's youth into joining gangs. But, says Samuel Logan, an expert on Latin American gang culture, "The current administration still has not made an effort to to adopt a less punitive position in dealing with the gangs." Ironically, one of the loudest advocates for rolling back Mano Duro ways Poveda, who photographed the El Salvaor civil war for TIME in the 1980s. Poveda said in a recent interview that El Salvador's political corruption...
...last three decades, successive Salvadoran governments have tried to curtail the two Maras. In the 1990s the Salvadoran government instituted a policy that became known as the Mano Duro (Strong Hand), that saw thousands of gang members jailed. But Mano Duro has not stopped the gangs. Corruption at the highest levels of government has allowed many leaders to go free or conduct business from behind bars. Saul Turcios Angel, also known as the "Pitbull," ran a kidnapping and extortion ring as part of Mara Salvatrucha. He escaped from a Salvadoran prison last year and was apprehended in Nicaragua earlier this...
...Estados Unidos y lo que mueve a los hispanos a venir aqu?. Nacida en el Bronx, hija de inmigrantes puertorrique?os, L?pez, de 36 a?os, posee las ganas de los que vienen de afuera y el conocimiento de las infinitas posibilidades de los de adentro. En otras palabras, ella trabaja duro y sue?a en grande. En el 2001 se convirti? en la primera actriz en tener, en la misma semana, una pel?cula (The Wedding Planner) y un disco (J. Lo) en el tope de las listas de venta. Hoy en d?a posee l?neas de ropa (JLO by Jennifer L?pez y Sweetface...
...Supreme Court restricted the jurisdiction of tribal governments in Duro v. Reina, ruling that individual tribes only had authority over their own members, not over American Indians from other tribes on their reservations...
...Russia, Igor Ugolnikov, host of a popular late-night show, Good Evening, appears on a set modeled after Letterman's (a nighttime view of Moscow in the background), banters with his bandleader and keeps a mug full of pencils on his desk. In Argentina, Roberto Pettinato is host of Duro de Acostar (roughly translated, Sleep Hard, a play on Duro de Matar, the Spanish title for Die Hard), which features yet another bantering bandleader, city backdrop and, in a variant on Letterman's trademark, a nightly Top 5 list. Dan Borge Akero, host of Norway's RiksDan, used...