Word: mexicanitis
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...lack of funding. “I was tired of knocking on every door and every possible institution and every possible producer,” she says. At Harvard, Schyfter is creating another documentary, though she is eschewing her typically female-driven narratives in favor of portraying a significant Mexican historical figure that illuminates relations between the US and Mexico.Schyfter is currently researching nineteenth-century intellectual Melchor Ocampo, a Mexican liberal who wrote separation of Church and State into Mexican law and attempted to establish a free-trade treaty between Mexico and the United States. Having participated in government protests...
...Suspected of helping Mexican and Colombian drug traffickers launder as much as $20 billion in wholesale profits during his 8 years...
...Began his career in the drug trade as an apprentice of "El Padrino" (Godfather) Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who once headed Mexico's most powerful drug cartel. Guzman founded his own cartel in 1980, quickly establishing posts in 17 Mexican states. Sinaloa, his organization, takes its name from a Mexican state along the Pacific coast long known as a hotbed for drug trafficking. After Gallardo's arrest in 1989, Guzman inherited some of his territory...
...Arrested in Mexico in 1993 for murder and drug charges following the accidental shooting death of Mexican Bishop Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo in Guadalajara, killed by a competing cartel who mistook Ocampo for Guzman. Convicted and sentenced to 7 years for conspiracy, bribery and "health crimes," according to the BBC. While incarcerated, he paid prison officials to arrange conjugal visits and business meetings to maintain control of his empire...
...Nearly captured in a Nov. 2005 raid at his rural stronghold in the western Sierra Madre, when Mexican police recognized his voice on a wiretap. But he fled the ranch before 200 army paratroopers had arrived...