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...less like the Clint Eastwood persona he cultivates and more like one of the legions of owlish technocrats who took over Latin America in the 1990s. He was hardened as mayor of Medellin, the continent's most violent city. Though his father, a rancher, was a friend of Fabio Ochoa, the late patriarch of the city's notorious drug cartel (the two shared a love of horses), Mayor Uribe was a noted crime buster there. As governor of northern Antioquia and as a Senator, he built a reputation for fiscal skill and honesty--but also for having a prickly authoritarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Technocrat of Steel | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...MEXICO Lawyer Murdered International denunciations followed the murder of human-rights lawyer Digna Ochoa in Mexico City. Ochoa had consented to the withdrawal of police protection because the death threats she had been getting since 1995 had tapered off. A note found with her body threatened former colleagues at the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center and read, "If you keep it up, you?ll get yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...That very day his officials were arresting cartel lieutenant Arturo (Chicken) Guzman, one of a brother team of alleged cocaine smugglers, who faces charges in the U.S. And just four days before Secretary of State Colin Powell's scheduled visit to Colombia, that country's cops were ushering Fabio Ochoa onto a plane bound for extradition to Florida, where he is accused of helping to smuggle 30 tons of cocaine a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurry, The Boss Is Coming | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...benefits of the 71-year reign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) is that it controls the levers of Mexico's political machine, which makes Fox something of an outside chance. But even if he doesn't beat out the P.R.I.'s candidate--the decidedly less macho Francisco Labastida Ochoa--this Sunday, Fox has certainly changed Mexican politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bionic Candidate | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

...freeway that stretches across the southern United States. The original blues and country compositions are enjoyable. There are quite a few covers, too; Duritz's remake of Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" stands out, as does Willie Nelson's interpretation of "Everybody's Talkin'." Even Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa (featured in Buena Vista Social Club) joins in, performing "El Guateque de Don Thomas," a traditional Cuban song; as the liner notes explain, Cuban music was popular along the Gulf of Mexico...

Author: By Arts Editors, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

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