Word: florez
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marie is devastated by the thought of moving from her home of 19 years. "I thought that this would be my house till the day I die," she says. "I wish people would believe us." The problem is, her neighbors are much more convincing. Raul Florez, a 22-year-old roofer from Mexico who lives two houses down from the Krafts, says John Sr. harassed him as soon as he moved in two years ago. Guyana native Sukhram Narine, who lives on the other side of the Ramoses, recalls suffering verbal attacks from the Krafts -- until the Ramoses arrived next...
Shining his flashlight around the dark corridors of a Chicago public-housing project, a police officer whose street name is Ghost (his real name is Enriquito Florez) illuminates some places where he has found hidden guns: behind broken exit signs, behind an electrical panel, atop a doorframe. On this night his light flashes on a hallway garbage drop that has been left open, with twine flapping loose; someone had apparently tied a gun inside but hastily wrenched it loose. Inside apartments, the officer relates, he has found cocaine in a container of Comet cleanser, guns hidden inside toilets and, once...
...terrorism or the economy, are Spain's most incendiary political issue. The country has become a principal gateway for South American cocaine, Middle Eastern heroin and North African hashish. Although the government has stepped up enforcement, its combat against the drug trade is uneven. Colombian Justice Minister Fernando Carrillo Florez recently charged that "the battle against the Medellin cartel is being lost because of Spanish bureaucratic hassles" in delivering evidence against dealers...