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...sides admit that there are some unfortunate effects of the ruling; no one enjoys seeing an admitted rapist set free, as Ernesto Miranda was years ago in the case that gave the ruling its name. However, that is the price that a society pays for a judicial system that protects the rights of the accused as well as the rights of the victims...
...could scrap the entire [system] and I would be fine with it," says Ernesto J. Diaz...
...policy of fighting drugs by funding the Colombian military is that it avoids the fact that the drug trade has permeated all sides of that war, not only leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries but the armed forces themselves and even the civilian leadership: Pastrana's predecessor, President Ernesto Samper, for example, has been accused of taking some $6 million in campaign contributions from drug barons. "There's general agreement that President Pastrana is pretty clean," says McGirk. "But it's hard to know how deep the corruption in the military goes. It's definitely there, because it's plain...
Julio ("Chino") Mercado, the narrator of Ernesto Quinonez's fine debut novel, Bodega Dreams (Vintage Books; 213 pages, $12), knows the projects of Spanish Harlem in New York City. So he also knows that the best way to survive them is to get out. He and his pregnant wife Blanca are putting themselves through college at night. Their goals are the usual ones: to get nice jobs, to buy a house...
...Administration had cooled relations considerably with Colombia's previous President, Ernesto Samper, accused of taking $6 million in campaign contributions from narcotraffickers. But current President Andres Pastrana, who was elected in 1998, is considered a hero in Washington. Senior State Department aides began working with him last year to carve out a long-term aid deal and antidrug alliance...