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...television interview, MILF chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim called on insurgents to end their attacks. But military spokesman Lt. Col. Ernesto Torres says the group may have lost control of its more radical military field commanders. "We consider these groups just plain criminals because they have defied the orders of MILF leadership," he says of the rogue insurgents. "We feel it's our responsibility to go after them and bring them to the bar of justice...
...workers say they've killed over 180 gang members over the past two years. Suspected of being off-duty cops and soldiers hired by local businessmen, these groups are not particularly discriminating. "Any kid who has a tattoo is fair game," says Human Rights Commission member Hugo Maldonado. Sociologist Ernesto Bordales concurs. "The general feeling here is that the only way to deal with the gangs is to kill them...
...Best Actress award went to Sandra Corveloni, who played a pregnant single mother trying to keep her poor family together in the Brazilian Linha de passe (Line of Passage). Only one U.S. picture was fêted: Benicio Del Toro was named Best Actor for his role as Ernesto Guevara in Che, directed by Steven Soderbergh. The movie's dialogue is almost entirely in Spanish, which means that, for the second year in a row, no English-language film took home any of the main jury's prizes...
...Steven Soderbergh's four-and-a-half hours detailing of Ernesto Guevara's two rebel campaigns in Cuba and Bolivia, was denied the Palme d'Or many expected, but Benicio del Toro, the film's indefatigable star, was named Best Actor. The Best Actress award went to Sandra Corveloni, who played the pregnant single mother trying to keep her poor family together in the Brazilian Linha de Passe, directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thompson. At the ceremony, Thompson revealed that Corveloni was herself pregnant and had just lost the child. She said the award would be balm...
...line that drew hearty applause. Kennedy School economist Jeffrey A. Frankel, who first met Fox in 1999 and who taught Calderón when he studied at Harvard, said that he sees a positive trajectory in Mexican governance. (Fox was preceded by Yale-graduate and PRI-member Ernesto Zedillo, who helped to dismantle PRI’s political monopoly.) “Fox was the first outsider to be able to take advantage of the new system [and] to challenge the entrenched powerbrokers successfully,” Frankel said. But, Frankel continued, while Fox had difficulty getting his policies passed...