Word: gordo
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America has lost one of its true adventurers, and Scott, Gordo, Wally and I have lost another brother. Al is now on the ultimate high flight. We will all miss him very much...
Poor Carlos was plump as a child. Schoolmates called him "El Gordo...
...nickname is El Gordo, the Fat Man, and he is both agent and metaphor. Joe Cubas, 35, a contractor from Miami, has orchestrated five defections from Cuba's national baseball team, most recently on July 9, when ace pitcher Rolando Arrojo slipped into Cubas' car, leaving his team's exhibition tour. That incident, coupled with the defections in late June at the Mexican border of Cuban boxers Joel Casamayor and Ramon Garbey, have led to widespread speculation that the most exciting event at the Atlanta Olympics will be the long jump--from Cuba...
...return to Czechoslovakia. The drama will be in the number of Cubans or the names. Is it possible that Felix Savon, the great heavyweight boxer, or a flame-throwing pitcher named Omar Luis or even Linares might bolt before receiving his gold medal? "Anything is possible," says El Gordo. "Something will happen...
...outside Cali, Colombia's cocaine capital. In recent weeks, though, word leaked that the reputed mastermind behind the world's No. 1 drug cartel had fled to Bogota, flushed from cover by an elite government strike force that had been chasing him for months. Santacruz is sometimes called "El Gordo" -- the Fat One -- and knowing he likes to eat, General Rosso Josa Serrano Cadena, chief of the Colombian National Police, ordered his men to stake out several of the good restaurants in the northern part of the city. Last Tuesday night Santacruz and three business associates dropped by a steakhouse...