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Among the most visible role models for the NAFTA generation is movie actress Salma Hayek. Most Americans know her as a rising Hollywood siren (Desperado, Fools Rush In). What they don't know is that behind her almond-eyed beauty lies an outspoken Mexican rebel. Six years ago, as a soap-opera star at Televisa, the broadcast giant that has strong ties to the P.R.I., she stunned her bosses and fans by bolting to Los Angeles. Today Hayek, 28, still delights in snubbing her country's Establishment in ways few celebrities have dared--whether by endorsing new competition against Mexico...
...course, the P.R.D. might have won with almost any candidate, given the public's revulsion at alleged P.R.I. involvement in bribery, drug trafficking and even political assassination. "It simply was no longer logical for a Mexican to vote for the P.R.I., a party that has had a dark complicity with corruption," Cardenas told TIME...
...Antonio Flores Montes, thought to be in his early 40s, was found dead in his Mexico City hospital room after having undergone eight hours of cosmetic facial surgery and liposuction to his midriff. Bruised and punctured, Flores' corpse was flown by chartered plane the next day to the northern Mexican city of Culiacan, where it was laid out at the Capillas Funerales San Martiaan in a coffin lined with silk. Not all visitors to the funeral home could be described as aggrieved, however. Among the arrivals were authorities from the Mexican attorney general's office who had come to seize...
Surely he'd faked his death, many Mexicans suspected. Could it be that a billionaire narcotics trafficker who regularly eluded assassins and prosecutors alike had met his end as the result of a nip and tuck? Having taken an international beating for failing to apprehend Carrillo over the years, the Mexican government was initially reluctant to declare the baron dead. But by early last week, officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which considered Carrillo its No. 1 target, confirmed that the corpse's fingerprints matched those known to have come from the fabled criminal. Mexican physicians then conducted tests...
Rather than going under the knife to upgrade his diminishing physical allure, Carrillo, according to speculation by drug enforcers, may have been seeking to change his identity for a life underground. Carrillo was in no immediate danger of being arrested--a planned U.S.-Mexican task force aimed at capturing him never materialized, largely because of ongoing corruption in the ranks of Mexican drug busters. But Carrillo had gained a level of celebrity in the past few years that made him a target for those on both sides...