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...drug trade. And that sense may have been underscored, on Tuesday, when local gangsters gunned down seven federal officers raiding a local house - one of the worst ever losses suffered by the agency. Newspaper editorials despaired that government forces have never appeared so vulnerable. Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna retorted that the villains had a home-ground advantage, and ordered more troops to Sinaloa. "We need to be in the very place where the violence is being generated," he said. "We are going to strengthen our operation in Sinaloa...
...part, has no intention of sending the troops back to the barracks anytime soon. On the contrary, following the killing of the seven policemen earlier this week, officials vowed to increase the caliber of armaments available to federal forces in Sinoloa. "The Mexican government is superior to organized crime," Garcia Luna said. "We are going to confront it with everything we have...
Aside from being a ferocious fighter, Marulanda also loved to dance and reportedly sired several children around the country. Like Colonel Aureliano Buendia (who himself sired 17 sons by 17 different women) in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombia's Nobel laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marulanda was a legendary rebel warrior. And like the fictional Buendia, Marulanda died of natural causes in old age as an enigma. In Garcia Marquez's classic, a character wonders if the colonel "had fought so many wars not out of idealism, as everyone had thought," but rather...
...churned with life and death, with vivid characters who fought back against the charnel chaos. The people in Blindness are mostly passive, even the sighted wife, who has an advantage she declines to use while her new friends are humiliated and starved. The leader of the bad guys (Gael Garcia Bernal) dominates because he has a gun, which she could take from him at any time.) Yet she allows the women in her ward, and herself, to be sexually abused by the miscreants rather than take control, as any Hollywood heroine would do. She sees her role as a nurturer...
...despite being a Mexican band, there are only three Mexican-American members in the group. For the Mexican-American members, Mariachi Veritas is “a way to share our culture with the other members of the group and the Harvard community,” according to David Garcia ’09, who plays the guitarron, a Mexican bass. “We sing in Spanish, even though we don’t understand what we’re singing,” Yapp says. But according to Viramontes, understanding the language is secondary...