Word: eduardo
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...Mexicans' growing success at both transportation and distribution has given them immense reserves of cash, which they are using to penetrate into the heart of the institutions that run the country. Testimony to the drug barons' pervasive influence is offered by Eduardo Valle, a former assistant to the Attorney General who resigned in frustration last spring and now lives in self-imposed exile in Alexandria, Virginia. Valle says many of the country's federal police commissioners and assistant attorneys general receive payoffs from drug lords. "It's a frigging disaster of enormous proportions," says a senior DEA agent, commenting...
...shooting, suspended efforts to catch rebel leaders for whom he had caused arrest warrants to be issued and offered the Zapatistas amnesty and political negotiations if they would lay down their arms. He even went along with one of the rebels' prime demands: the resignation of Chiapas Governor Eduardo Robledo, who the Zapatistas contend had won his post in a fraudulent election...
...even put up $10 million more, but financiers were not totally reassured. They noted that Grupo Sidek still has an additional $100 million or so of debt coming due soon, and are concerned that if it fails to pay, other big companies will also stiff their foreign creditors. Eduardo Cabrera, a Latin American investment strategist for Merrill Lynch in New York, says that Zedillo ``should have stepped in with a bridge loan or something'' to remove all fears of a default. The President did not, and the Mexican stock market dropped about 6% last Wednesday to a 17-month...
Building on a theory by Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov, Walsworth, physicist Eduardo R. Oteiza and co-workers have been working on detecting an electric dipole of xenon to gain insight into the laws governing the formation of the universe...
...sincerity of his efforts. ``The most important factor,'' said the rebel, ``was that he sent his Interior Minister as his direct representative. That shows he's taking the problem seriously.'' The Zapatistas are relatively confident that their prime demand will be met: the removal from office of Eduardo Robledo, the p.r.i. governor whose August election--in the same balloting that elected Zedillo--was deemed fradulent by the rebels. With Zapatista backing, the losing p.r.d. candidate, Amado Avendano, has already been installed as symbolic head of a ``government in rebellion'' in San Cristobal de las Casas, the colonial state capital...