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When ex-Mexican police officer Raul Lopez Alvarez, 28, was found guilty in Los Angeles last week of kidnaping, torture and murder, the federal court verdict represented two important milestones. It was the nation's first conviction under a 1984 racketeering law that adds new penalties for violence. And it was the first conclusive success in the nation's long effort to punish those responsible for the 1985 murder in Mexico of Drug Enforcement agent Enrique Camarena and his pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar. The jury found Alvarez, formerly a member of the Guadalajara homicide squad, guilty of six charges, including...
...might expect Moon Over Parador to be a cross between Down and Out in Beverly Hills and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Parador director Paul Mazursky and star Richard Dreyfuss worked together in Beverly Hills, while Parador's other stars, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga, appeared together in Spider Woman. Also, Parador, like Beverly Hills, means to be a comedy of social and cultural clashes, while using the political instability of a Latin American dictatorship as a backdrop, like Spider Woman...
...thespian, meaning he sometimes thinks before he says his lines. Or anyway he thinks he thinks, which for an actor amounts to the same thing. In this enterprise he is encouraged by his inherited mistress (Sonia Braga) and by his dislike of the spokesman for the protofascist status quo (Raul Julia). The trio are game performers, but their energy cannot compensate for the lack of funny lines and well-constructed scenes. It may be that Mazursky was overcome by a sincerity attack and decided to send an earnest political message. In any event, this is a pale and waning Moon...
...which owes $120 billion, seems to be on the upswing: in December the country resumed paying all its interest -- more than ten months after it stunned the financial community by stopping payments on its loans from private banks. But in Argentina, which is some $55 billion in debt, President Raul Alfonsin has imposed a wage-price freeze to curb inflation, which was running at an annual rate of more than 300% in July. Earlier this month, the U.S. announced that it would give Argentina an emergency $500 million loan to help it meet interest payments that have come...
...still going to be Spanish music." Some Latin musicians are worried that every step toward Anglo society is a step away from their culture's roots; one player's progressivism is another's sellout. "The Latin market is our bread and butter, and we can't ignore them," says Raul Alfonso of Hansel y Raul, a straight-ahead salsa band that is trying to broaden its appeal with an upcoming record in English. But pop music has always been an indiscriminate buccaneer, hijacking European, American and African treasure alike, mutating it and selling it around the world...