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Mexico's northern-border commissioner, Ernesto Ruffo, argues that the time has come to end the "us-vs.-them" talk. Says he: "If we'd quit speaking in Spanish and in English and speak the language of economics, we'd end up understanding each other much better." Fox speaks that language (plus English) well. Only three months away from marking his first year in office, he is trying to cool expectations at home. "The country's fate doesn't rest on a President," he said last week as he urged Mexicans to go beyond their traditional fixation on the leader...
...when a good Mexican cop is working with the DEA. A few years ago, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo sent an earnest young police reformer, Jose (Pepe) Patino, to help clean up Tijuana's corrupt police force. "Of all the [Mexican police] I've ever worked with, he's the only one I ever felt was honest," says a DEA agent who has investigated the cartel for years. For his safety, Patino lived in San Diego. But in April 2000, two Mexican federal police comandantes--who had been polygraphed, vetted and trained by the U.S. to serve in a "clean...
DIED. ALBERTO KORDA, 72, photographer whose image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara immortalized him as a worldwide symbol of revolution; in Paris. Korda's picture The Heroic Guerrilla graced countless T shirts and posters after Guevara's death in 1967. The photographer accepted use of his picture as a protest icon but fought commercial reproductions he felt "dishonored" his subject. DIED. WHITMAN MAYO, 70, actor best known for playing the character Grady in the U.S. TV series Sanford and Son; in Atlanta. He worked in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, starring in TV's Different Strokes...
...constitutionality that allows the President to arrest whomever she likes for a period of three days. She ordered the rounding up of her most bitter political foes, including Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, an Estrada loyalist and one of the heroes who toppled the Marcos regime, and former Washington ambassador Ernesto Maceda. Senator Gregorio Honasan, an Enrile ally and former army colonel involved in seven botched coup attempts in the late 1980s, refused to surrender along with nine others...
...ERNESTO GAMARRA OLIVARES...