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...DIED. ISIDRO (EL INDIO) LOPEZ, 75, saxophonist and crooner considered to be the father of Tejano music; of complications from a stroke and brain aneurysm; in Corpus Christi, Texas. The native Texan, who was half Apache (hence "El Indio"), formed the Isidro Lopez Orchestra in 1956, combining a Big Band sound with accordion-laced Mexican-style polka called conjunto. Also nicknamed "the Mexican Elvis," he wrote more than 500 songs, including rock tunes such as Mala Cara and Macho Rock 'n' Roll...
While Tulla has been working at a video game design studio he and four fellow graduates from the Class of 2003 started, Isidro has been finishing her undergraduate career. Planning the wedding amid the “absolutely crazy” law school applications and writing a thesis has fortunately “all gone pretty smoothly,” according to Isidro, who credits both families’ involvement with the preparations...
...honeymoon has been Tulla’s responsibility (the couple will spend a week in the Caribbean), but Tulla says that he most looks forward to being able to make a home together with Isidro after the celebration...
...paramilitary troops entered a Coke bottling plant in Carepa, Colombia and murdered for Isidro Gil, a Sinaltrainal leader spearheading the fight for a new contract. Hours later, a paramilitary squad set fire to the Sinaltrainal offices in Carepa, and two days later gunmen entered the plant again and forced workers to terminate their union membership under threat of death. These stories are sickeningly commonplace in Colombia, the most dangerous place in the world for union members with 1,800 confirmed murdered over the last 12 years, and only five of those murders resulting in convictions...
...alone but were reacting to "a series of events over the last four weeks." Indeed: a band of congressmen tried (unsuccessfully) to impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saw a mini-exodus of officials, including respected Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho; kidnap gangs ran riot in Manila; power blackouts were predicted for vast stretches of the country. And the day Poe became a candidate, a shadowy group of soldiers released a manifesto threatening a coup if Arroyo didn't clean up the government...