Word: humberto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time, Lone Star. With the awkwardly titled Men With Guns (it amazingly both sounds like, and is, a bad translation), however, Sayles has turned a fundamentally disturbing subject matter fit for a sober documentary into the slow-motion romp of a Mr. Magoo social historian. Main character Dr. Humberto Fuentes (Federico Luppi) undergoes an overblown process of discovery in which we are invited to partake: nasty secret things happening and happen after civil strife. Again, no one can fault Sayles for noble motives, and obviously the story itself merits only the most serious consideration, but Sayles moves much better from...
...municipality racked by scandal--a bribery sting netted three officials last year--Suarez also decided to name an indicted ally, Humberto Hernandez, as chairman of the city commission. Hernandez goes on trial soon for money laundering and fraud. But after the state's Department of Law Enforcement announced an investigation into charges of vote fraud, the mayor also appointed Chairman Hernandez to lead a counterinvestigation into the department's investigation...
ALLISON. BARRY. CHANTAL. DEAN. Erin. Felix. Gabrielle. Humberto. Iris. Jerry. Karen. Luis. If residents of low-lying coastal areas are anxious this summer, they have a dozen reasons--and more are undoubtedly on the way. The hurricane season has not yet peaked, but menacing storms are already rumbling across the Atlantic Ocean one after another, like warplanes taking off from a carrier deck. Last week alone, four ominously swirling air masses zigzagged across satellite weather maps, packed so close together that it almost seemed they might merge to form a single monster storm. "You feel like you're standing...
...sources of this alleged obstruction, Ruiz Massieu announced, were the P.R.I.'s president, Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza, and current secretary-general, Maria de los Angeles Moreno, as well as his own boss, Attorney General Humberto Benitez Trevino. Ruiz Massieu refused to give specifics of the cover- up, saying only that his superiors "were more concerned with trying to defend the criminals than with resolving the issue." He promised the documents would prove his charges...
...given the government evidence that the PRI's president and secretary-general (the second- and third-most powerful Mexican officials ) had blocked his investigation into the shooting of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu , Mexico's No. 2 official and a future presidential contender. He also said his boss, Attorney General Humberto Benitez Trevino, joined in the cover-up. Ruiz Massieu distributed a 97-page book he said contained "proof" of the alleged misdeeds...