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...What were your original ambitions with Wikipedia and have they been met so far? -Ignacio Meza, Los Angeles, Calif...
...WHODUNIT BY ... WHO DAT? Apparently, leading a leftist revolution from the jungles of southern Mexico leaves plenty of time for literary pursuits. Zapatista spokesman SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS has co-written a noir mystery novel, The Uncomfortable Dead, with Spanish crime author Paco Ignacio Taibo II. The story of detectives investigating a government-backed murderer, due in U.S. bookstores next month, isn't the masked rebel's first stab at fiction. In 1999, Marcos, a former professor who travels with a pet rooster, wrote a children's book, Story of the Colors. His new work is an effort to raise awareness...
...Compensation is especially important to Cuban-Americans who lost large holdings - like the De la Camaras, whose patriarch Jose Ignacio was actually locked in a room by Che Guevara in 1960 and forced to sign over the assets of the oil company they co-directed. Today the family is trying to get the Bush Administration to pull the U.S. visas of execs from the European, Canadian and South American oil firms that operate on their property today, hoping to leverage some financial settlement from them. With billions of barrels of potential new Cuban crude reserves being discovered now, that effort...
...speak out of both sides of his mouth at the same time. At one moment he says his military forces would go it alone, "preferably" without U.S. military aid. In almost the same breath, he admits his decision to call elections was "in part" due to U.S. pressure. Ignacio Javier Hollywood...
...illegal gambling racket are just another part of the plot. Last Thursday, Sandra Cam, a 45-year-old former provincial official, told a Senate investigating panel that she delivered tens of thousands of dollars in cash to the President's son, Juan Miguel, and her husband's brother, Ignacio Arroyo. (Both men, along with Arroyo's husband, have denied getting payoffs from the so-called jueteng numbers rackets.) Arroyo responded swiftly, ordering an investigation by the Justice Department...