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...ERNESTO LECUONA The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 (Bis). Everybody knows Lecuona's most famous composition, Malaguena. But there's much more than that to the prolific Cuban composer, who died in 1963. Fingers ablaze, pianist Thomas Tirino eloquently makes the case...
...retired Bolivian general who witnessed the secret burial of Marxist revolutionary and '60s icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara revealed for the first time where the guerrilla leader is buried. General Mario Vargas Salinas told a journalist that Guevara's body was interred by bulldozer, along with those of five other executed guerrillas, under an airstrip at Vallegrande, a Bolivian mountain town 150 miles southwest of Santa Cruz, shortly after Guevara's summary execution by firing squad on Oct. 9, 1967. His final words, according to the general: "Shoot, coward! You are going to kill...
...arrest of Gilberto Mora Mesa, the Cali cartel's alleged communications chief, allegedly establishes that the cocaine organization was spying on both the Colombian government and United States drug agents. But while Colombian authorities, namely embattled President Ernesto Samper, are blaming the cartel for the tapping, American officials believe blame lies elsewhere. "The American embassy is absolutely livid about this. They think the Colombian government is behind the taps," reports TIME's Elaine Shannon. "Pointing the finger at the cartel is seen as a desperate attempt by Samper to save his administration. He's terrified that the cartel's bookkeeper...
Five gunmen jumped out of a van and fired automatic rifles at a car carrying an attorney for Colombian President Ernesto Samper this morning, wounding the lawyer and killing two of his bodyguards. A previously unknown group calling itself Movement for a Dignified Colombia claimed responsibility and demanded the resignation of Samper, who is beset with accusations that his campaign accepted contributions from the Cali cocaine cartel. Tuesday, the President was questioned at his palace by the head of a congressional commission that is investigating charges that Samper accepted contributions from the Cali cocaine cartel. "The commission is credible," reports...
...year has passed since president Ernesto Samper Pizano of Colombia was first accused of taking millions of dollars for his 1994 presidential campaign from the cocaine-rich Rodriguez brothers of Cali--time enough for him to emerge as a strong and conscientious leader. A poll two weeks ago by Semana magazine gave Samper a 63% approval rating. Last week, however, all that trust came unraveled. Explosive allegations by a former close aide implicated Samper more forcefully than ever, and brought the survival of his presidency into doubt...