Word: nazario
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...fireplaces, in closets, everywhere," says one. La Familia members purport to be devout Christians who abstain from drugs themselves. In fact, they insist that while they sell meth and cocaine to the U.S., they keep it away from Mexicans. They also study a special Bible authored by their leader, Nazario Moreno, a.k.a. El Más Loco, or "The Craziest One." The cartel's profits have helped it build a large network of support among the poor in Michoacán, which is also the home state of Mexican President Felipe Calder...
...traffic drugs, they protect their local community and purport to be devout Evangelical Christians. All members are disciplined to abstain from narcotics themselves and care for their homes and children, La Familia says. They are also made to study a special Bible authored by the gang's spiritual leader, Nazario Moreno, alias El Mas Loco, or "the Maddest One." (See the cults that went wacko...
...landing 150 more power punches than the Mexican. The referee stopped the fight, and Pacquiao raised his arms, crying and smiling as his cornermen draped the Philippine flag around the shoulders of the featherweight dragon slayer. "At least they're finally beginning to pronounce his name right," says Rod Nazario, Pacquiao's longtime business manager...
...fight purses, which hit $700,000 for the battle with Barrera. Members circle the fighter like planets around the sun, cooking his dinner, clearing away his plate, carrying his pool cue when he goes out for the marathon billiards matches that occupy many of his evenings. Manager Nazario remembers calling Pacquiao the morning after a party in his honor, not long after the fighter returned from the U.S. "He said, 'I thought I had 30 relatives,'" Nazario recalls, "'but there were actually 100 ... 150 ... 200 ... and they all say they are my relatives...
...certainly seemed that way. In 1998, when he was just 19, Pacquiao won a world flyweight title. Two years later, he added a world superbantamweight title. But it wasn't until manager Nazario hooked him up with Freddie Roach, a respected boxing trainer in Los Angeles, that Pacquiao began to reach his potential. "I could tell there was something inside him, but he had not yet discovered it because no one was teaching him," Nazario recalls. "That's why I decided to bring him to the States." Roach took Pacquiao's natural aggressiveness and fearlessness and combined them with defense...