Word: jose
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...unhappy that he, and not they, got to choose the timing of his exit, and that his regime will linger on in large part under his brother. (Although it also has to be a downer for Fidel to step down just months short of his golden anniversary in power.) Jose "Pepe" Hernandez, president of the Miami-based Cuban-American National Foundation, which backs the trade embargo, said Fidel's departure "opens a new chapter in Cuban history," but stresses that "we have to see what the successors of Fidel Castro are going to do with these opportunities they [now] have...
...being held for 90 days on suspicion of racketeering and weapons offenses. The Sinaloa cartel has been blamed for carrying out many of the attacks on police and soldiers this year. Federal agents say they also foiled an attempt by the gang to assassinate Federal Prosecutor Jose Luis Santiago, who oversees the extradition of high-level criminals to the United States...
...partly demolished house. The soldiers, members of the International Stabilization Force attempting to restore calm to East Timor, believed that hiding inside the three-bedroom home was one of the country's most wanted men, Lieutenant Gustao Salsinha - sought in connection with the Feb. 11 attacks on President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. They slipped up the ladder, through the upper story, down the stairs and into one of the bedrooms, where they tapped the leg of a figure lying on a bed. Their prize gave a piercing girlish scream. It was not the ruthless guerrilla fighter...
...fame among baseball fans as the New York Mets' self-appointed commentator. From 1964 to 1981, the "Sign Man of Shea Stadium"--whom the Mets flew to the 1973 World Series for good luck--sat in the stands and held up hundreds of prepared block-lettered placards to tweak (JOSE CAN YOU SEE? when Jose Cardenal struck out) or praise (IT'S ALIVE! when a weak player got a hit). "I called them the way I saw them," he said...
...Monday morning, it looked as though the Australian-trained soldier's belief in his abilities had been ill-founded. Reinado was gunned down outside President Jose Ramos-Horta's compound during what authorities claim was an assassination attempt on the country's President and its Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmão. Reinado's comrades angrily deny this and say their commander had been invited into town for a meeting when he was attacked, and that Ramos-Horta was caught in the ensuing gunfight. Whatever the truth, the incident left Ramos-Horta with gunshot wounds to the stomach and back...