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...Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, he plays Pete Perkins, a ranch foreman whose Mexican friend Melquiades is killed by a hotheaded border-patrol guard (Barry Pepper). As an act of respect, Pete vows to return Mel's body home; as a moral lesson, he resolves to take the killer with him. At riflepoint...
...film grew from Jones' friendship with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams). For the Texan and the Mexican, a film about the border patrol struck sparks. "I want to make movies about my country from my point of view," Jones says, "and Arriaga feels that way about his country. You can't spend a lot of time in the Rio Grande Valley without realizing that those countries are the same." The two men's collaboration worked out handsomely: they won the actor and screenplay prizes at Cannes...
...neocons' vision of a reliable U.S. client state in the Middle East. The second part of this equation awaits history's verdict; the first part didn't work out at all. Iraq has turned out to be an old-fashioned war, one carried out by foot soldiers on dangerous patrol. The toys are not nifty long-range missiles but G.I. Joes: human beings at fatal risk...
...once safe areas such as Pétionville and Péguyville, southeast of the capital, frustrated Haitians are becoming increasingly more hostile toward MINUSTAH. So far the Mission has lost eight people, the most recent on Christmas Eve when gunmen shot and killed a Jordanian peacekeeper on patrol...
Thank you for the informative�articles on U.S. immigration policy [Dec. 5]. Although I believe the government needs to reform the system, I disagree with the tactics of the Minutemen [the vigilantes who patrol the borders and demonstrate against immigrants at day-labor centers]. Perhaps the Minutemen could better channel their energies by finding U.S. citizens willing to perform the jobs that illegal immigrants are doing and assisting those Americans in getting such jobs. JAMES GATES Lake Worth...