Word: pichardo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sources of this alleged obstruction, Ruiz Massieu announced, were the P.R.I.'s president, Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza, and current secretary-general, Maria de los Angeles Moreno, as well as his own boss, Attorney General Humberto Benitez Trevino. Ruiz Massieu refused to give specifics of the cover- up, saying only that his superiors "were more concerned with trying to defend the criminals than with resolving the issue." He promised the documents would prove his charges...
...hours after the ex-Assistant Attorney General's press conference, Pichardo and Moreno were holding one of their own to defend themselves. Two days later Pichardo said he was formally suing Ruiz Massieu for defamation and slander. Although the three emphatically declared their innocence, the accusations against them seem destined to widen a web of suspicion that expands with each passing month. By last week, Ruiz Massieu's office had charged 15 people in the planning, execution and cover-up of his brother's death. Several are prominent officials, including a P.R.I. congressman who allegedly masterminded the killing...
...Pichardo contends that his rituals are no different from hunting or commercial slaughtering of animals for meat. "You can buy Chicken McNuggets in Hialeah," says Jorge Duarte, an attorney for the Santeria church, "but you can't kill a chicken for religious reasons." Santeria spokesmen insist that unlike the gruesome rituals still routinely performed in Cuba, their sacrifices are humane and no animals are tortured. But opponents disagree. "Carcasses are polluting our rivers and rotting in the streets," says ! Marian Lentz of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida. Pichardo admits that some offbeat cults may be responsible for the animals...
...Pichardo argues that if animal sacrifices are outlawed, a faith that only recently went public will be driven underground again and will become far less subject to regulation. He declares, "People will never stop practicing their religion." No matter what the Justices think of the way they go about...