Word: ganges
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Balata and Nablus are not the only Palestinian communities torn by internal conflict. Tribal, social and regional enmities throughout the Palestinian territories grow more violent by the day. The intifadeh was supposed to free Palestinians from Israeli occupation, but it is fast pushing them into crime, poverty and gang war. Since the arrival of the Palestinian Authority seven years ago, the society of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been cracking under the dual strains of Arafat's corrupt rule and continued occupation by Israel. The intifadeh took those fissures and blew them apart. This semi-anarchy has alarming...
...time, it looked as if the Arellanos had gone over the line. But after offering confession and begging forgiveness in a secret meeting with the papal nuncio, they simply stepped up the violence. They recruited hardened gang members from San Diego, as well as the bored sons of affluent Tijuana families--a trigger-happy cadre known as "los narco-juniors." Mexican ex-military and police officers filled out their ranks of assassins and helped train new members. They imported not only guns but also heavy weapons from U.S. arms traffickers (they once threatened to fire rocket-propelled grenades...
...Tijuana weekly Zeta. Because of his reporting on the cartel--which included publishing letters from mothers of Ramon's victims calling Ramon a coward--Blancornelas was shot four times in broad daylight in 1997 by a group that included Ramon's main hitman, David Barron Corona (a San Diego gang member who was himself killed by a stray bullet between the eyes during the botched assault). "If the will is there, and I think it is," says Blancornelas, "it could happen soon...
...houses south of Tijuana as he partied drunk and naked with two Colombian women. And patience with the Arellanos may be wearing thin among the Colombian cartels, which are often led by cultured narco-dons who view their Mexican allies as sloppy and uncouth nacos, or hicks--a gang, U.S. agents say, that had to bury a DC-7 in the Baja desert six years ago because it had failed to tell the Colombian pilots, who were delivering 20 tons of cocaine, that landing in the sand would wreck the jet engines...
...taking their songs to the commercialized Woodstocks that have popped up across Europe recently. Promoters love festivals, which draw a broader, larger audience by mixing old and new acts. One example is the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland (July 24-29), which has old-timers (Kool and the Gang, John Hammond) and younger artists (Kelis, Ash) in the program. Also keep an ear out for emerging artists who use festivals as a chance to introduce themselves to new audiences. "We'll be playing music that thousands of people haven't ever heard," says Julian Casablancas, lead singer of the Strokes...