Word: garc
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...scandal came to the surface in August, when Salvador Barragán Camacho, leader of the powerful Oil Workers' Union of the Mexican Republic, accused fellow Union Executive Héctor García Hernandez (alias El Trampas, the trickster) of stealing some $6.6 million in union funds. The overweight, droopy-eyed García promptly sold most of his Mexican assets, then crossed the border to his $250,000 town house in McAllen, Texas. There, García fired off a letter to President De la Madrid accusing Barragán and the alleged behind-the-scenes "godfather...
...García thought he was safe in Texas, he soon learned otherwise. According to McAllen police, two thugs kidnaped García at gunpoint early last month and spirited him to Mexico. There he was handed over to Mexican authorities, who slapped him behind bars on fraud charges. Garcia told officials that he feared for his life, probably with good reason. The day after his jailing, another union boss, Oscar Torres Pancardo, was killed in a mysterious crash. In an apparent attempt to disguise the circumstances, his bodyguards fatally shot Torres' driver in the head. At a rare...
...remark echoed the confusion of many Guatemalans. Since he took over-at God's direction, as he put it-Ríos Montt has made far-reaching changes in the brutal and corrupt government that he inherited from his predecessor, General Fernando Romeo Lucas García. The country is now flooded with blue-and-white posters bearing a favorite Ríos Montt slogan, I DO NOT ROB, I DO NOT LIE, I DO NOT ABUSE. Under the President's moralizing eye, corruption has all but dried up. Government-sanctioned death squads that used to roam...
Condé Nast officials insisted when announcing the revival: "You will not find a more handsome, readable magazine in America." That boast prompted high, perhaps unreachable, expectations. The first issue is certainly lavish (290 glossy pages) and diverse. To accompany an entire short novel by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, the magazine bought rights to a dozen new paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared...
Last Thursday in Mexico City, where García Márquez resides in an elite suburb with his wife Mercedes, a flustered maid served coffee while the shy, stout author made plans to accept his award in Stockholm. He intends to wear the traditional Mexican guayabera, a lightweight shirt worn outside the trousers. Said he: "To avoid putting on a tuxedo, I'll stand the cold." The creator of fictional ice, amnesia and ascending bedsheets could hardly do otherwise...