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...premium and superpremium tequilas, like La Altena distillery's El Tesoro, or La Gonzalena's Chinaco, made of 100% blue agave. These use nearly twice the fermented agave juice necessary to mix cheaper brands. "What is happening today is a product of what happened in 1991 and 1992," says Javier Arroyo Chavez, president of Mexico's Tequila Regulatory Commission. "No one then ever imagined that the tequila industry would go on to its present success...
Some of the malfeasance was more lethal. Perez's most incendiary story concerns the 1996 shooting of admitted gang member Javier Francisco Ovando. Ovando was a skinny 19-year-old whom Perez and his partner shot and then, according to Perez, planted a rifle on to make it look as if Ovando had attacked the police. Ovando was paralyzed, and may never walk again. The judge at the trial lambasted Ovando--who had to be wheeled in on a gurney--for endangering the lives of two hero policemen, before sentencing him to 23 years in prison. In September, Ovando...
...Javier Francisco Ovando is famous today, but back in 1996 no one much cared when cops stormed his apartment near downtown Los Angeles and shot him in the chest and head. Ovando belonged to the 18th Street Gang, a group of powerful Mexican drug lords. At trial, the judge lectured the skinny 19-year-old--who lay paralyzed on a gurney--for threatening the lives of two brave cops, and sent him away for 23 years...