Word: garcias
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...TOWN OF VILLA JUAREZ, just south of Monterrey, 15 Mexican drug agents spent most of Jan. 14 crouched outside a walled ranch house. The agents had received a critical tip: Juan Garcia Abrego, one of Mexico's most powerful drug dealers, was inside. At 7 p.m., the team moved in. They smashed through the front gate in a minivan, taking Garcia Abrego and two bodyguards by surprise. As the druglord dashed out a back door and tried to launch his portly frame over a fence, agents grabbed him by the shirt. Twenty minutes later, the man who had shipped perhaps...
...first, he remained calm, joking with his captors that "you're going to be hearing from me." But by the time Garcia Abrego reached the capital, President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon had already decided against keeping him in Mexico. Instead, the President ordered him hustled onto a jet and flown to the U.S., where he is wanted on 20 charges, including drug trafficking, money laundering and murder, and is featured on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list. (He is the first international drug dealer ever to make that dishonor roll.) When he realized where he was headed, Garcia...
HOUSTON: Juan Garcia Abrego, Mexico's second most powerful drug lord, calmly stood in a Houston courtroom today and listened as a 20-count indictment was read against him. Abrego, one of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives, was arrested by Mexican authorities Sunday after a lengthy manhunt, and was turned over the next day to U.S. officials. Latin American bureau chief Laura Lopez reports: "From the perspective of the U.S., Abrego's arrest and deportation is very positive. Relations between the two countries had begun to sour recently amid speculation about government corruption and complicity in the drug...
Former Harvard Dining Services employee Michael B. Garcia '97 worked in the dish room his first year at Harvard and said he disagrees with the facial hair prohibition...
...thought it was a silly rule, because people could have mustaches," Garcia said. "It wasn't like people had beards down to their belly buttons. It's not like we're hiding food...