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Noorzai was the smallest of the big fish, but only because the list included Latin American heavyweights at the time considered the most powerful and dangerous crime families on the planet. It is possible, a sign of either immense confidence or sloppiness, that Noorzai did not know he had made the top 10 kingpin list that was posted on international law-enforcement websites. But a simple Google search might have warned him off his next move...
...dance around the ugliness of the crimes just as the media and post-Pinochet debates do. The difference is we aren’t avoiding something unknown, but rather something she knows too well. Lauren R. Foote ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a Latin American studies concentrator in Currier House...
...David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), which since 2002 has placed dozens of Harvard undergraduates in Chile for its study abroad program, has decided to put the program on hold this semester due to a lack of applicants...
...figures put the number of child soldiers at about 250,000, mostly in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Even for those who are no longer fighting, the future is bleak. "That is the stage we usually fail them," says Olara Otunnu, a friend of Beah's and a former undersecretary general to the U.N. "Child soldiers may be, for want of a better word, the most sexy category of children affected by war; but they are not the only ones." Sometimes families cannot be found or refuse to take the ex-soldiers in; sometimes they can't kick the drugs...
DIED. Desi Arnaz, 69, Cuban-born actor, bandleader and innovative TV producer, best known for playing Harried Husband Ricky Ricardo in television's phenomenally successful series I Love Lucy (1951-59); of lung cancer; in Del Mar, Calif. Fleeing Cuba after the revolution of 1933, he formed a Latin dance band, making his film debut in Too Many Girls (1940), where he met and married his leading lady Lucille Ball. While co-starring with her in Lucy, he headed their production studio, Desilu, pioneering in the use of film for TV programs. The approach preserved Lucy and other shows, resulting...