Word: ezequiel
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...Chavez family lives like royalty. "The new leaders are the representatives of the new oligarchy," says opposition leader Leonardi Meza. Although there has been government corruption in Barinas, no evidence has surfaced implicating the family. In 2006, a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme was uncovered at the Ezequiel Zamora sugar-processing complex still construction near Sabaneta despite having been slated for completion in 2005. Only lower-level officials have been charged in the case...
...capital of a mythical South American country. Attached to their carcasses are literate, even ironic, signs announcing a pre-revolutionary terrorist campaign directed at the corrupt and fascist local regime. An honest, weary cop, Augustin Rejas (Javier Bardem), is assigned to investigate. In particular, he must track down "Ezequiel," in whose name the increasingly violent terrorist campaign is being prosecuted...
...central to Malkovich's life. Early next year he'll release The Dancer Upstairs, the first film he has directed. Based on a novel by British writer Nicholas Shakespeare, it tells the story of an investigator who reluctantly accepts the task of finding the terrorist Ezequiel, modeled on Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, the founder of Peru's Shining Path. "It's not really about terrorism," says Malkovich. "It's about a modern man, one who sees the way the world passes and fights his own corner." A description Malkovich, with an indefinable look of bemusement, would likely accept...
Concerns about the civil liberties of Arab Americans stem in part from drastic steps the government took during World War II, when Japanese Americans were forcibly moved to INTERNMENT CAMPS. In an issue with a cover story on Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, TIME wrote of one of the first groups sent away...