Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first asked for an interview with him last year through a source connected to the Cali drug organization. Finally came the invitation. Also a warning from Rodriguez: "I don't want my family's name damaged. My brother Miguel Angel and I are the only members of our family to be linked to this business...
...life -- with cold calculation, he parlayed youthful jobs as a drugstore clerk by day and a kidnapper by night into a vast network of enterprises, including a pharmacy chain, office and apartment buildings, banks, car dealerships, radio stations and Cali's talented America soccer team. His handsome younger brother Miguel is a fixture on the local social scene, and their children, educated in the U.S. or Europe, are often compared to young Rockefellers or Kennedys by Colombians...
...including antiques and an art collection. Last April Ortega paid a token $2,500 to the former Sandinista government for the deed to the house, which is protected from prying eyes by a high wall decorated with festive murals. Other top Sandinistas also retired in style. Miguel D'Escoto, the rotund priest and ex-Foreign Minister, paid only $13,000 for one of the capital's plushest mansions...
...Miguel Cervantes: "Marriage is a noose...
Next to Chile, Mexico enjoys the best odds of making privatization work. Former President Miguel de la Madrid sold the Aeromexico national airline for $193.8 million to a group of Mexican investors in 1988. Sales took off after Carlos Salinas de Gortari became President later that year. Mexicana, the other state-owned airline, was sold for $140 million to a consortium including Mexico's Group Xabre conglomerate and the Chase Manhattan Bank. Next to hit the auction block was Cananea, one of the largest copper mines in the western hemisphere, sold last summer for $475 million to Mexican copper baron...