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...when a good Mexican cop is working with the DEA. A few years ago, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo sent an earnest young police reformer, Jose (Pepe) Patino, to help clean up Tijuana's corrupt police force. "Of all the [Mexican police] I've ever worked with, he's the only one I ever felt was honest," says a DEA agent who has investigated the cartel for years. For his safety, Patino lived in San Diego. But in April 2000, two Mexican federal police comandantes--who had been polygraphed, vetted and trained by the U.S. to serve in a "clean...
...Still, Patino's murder may have bolstered Mexican government resolve. Soon afterward, the Mexican army, acting on cia as well as DEA tips, arrested Ramon's buddy Higuera at one of his houses south of Tijuana as he partied drunk and naked with two Colombian women. And patience with the Arellanos may be wearing thin among the Colombian cartels, which are often led by cultured narco-dons who view their Mexican allies as sloppy and uncouth nacos, or hicks--a gang, U.S. agents say, that had to bury a DC-7 in the Baja desert six years ago because...
...Maria Patino '03 spent Saturday night on the steps of Memorial Church, in order to get a good seat for Graham's sermon there Sunday morning. She returned to see Graham for a second time...
Cuban poet Patino Vasquez...
April is National Poetry Month and it is being celebrated at the Middle East starting at 8 p.m. Patino Vasquez will be delivering a combination of poetry and songs of Cuba followed by a group of minimalist poets from Burlington, Vt. Tickets can be picked up at the Middle East Box Office or from Ticketmaster 931-2000. 472 Mass Ave., Central Square. Call 354-8388 for more info. 18+. $8 at the door...