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...make arrests, something frighteningly unusual happened. Instead of scattering like the desert animals that migrant smugglers are named for--coyotes--henchmen working for Avianeda and Andrade fired at the cops with automatic weapons. "We've never faced that kind of resistance from coyotes," says the Minatitlan detective commander, Simitrio Rodriguez. "They're usually not even armed." None of the police were hurt. When the gunfight was over, Avianeda, 39, and four others were under arrest. Andrade, 28, had fled, and is still at large...
...minimum wage in Chicago restaurants and North Carolina poultry-processing plants. In 2000, investigators say, he returned home to join his father and brother as a smuggler. But he had bigger plans than his kin. He had learned in his brief narco days how to intimidate competition, says Rodriguez, who adds that Andrade has an "impulsive, psychotic and violent profile." Avianeda and Andrade are charged with the murders of three rivals. Avianeda has pleaded not guilty to the smuggling and homicide charges...
...that should never have happened. We have lost the ideals of the New Deal and the Great Society, which were put in place to help all Americans, and we have lost the respect and admiration of the world. Schwarzenegger wouldn't save California; he would terminate it. SABINO RODRIGUEZ Daytona Beach Shores...
With kids who were recognizably kids and a hero dad with a goofy (i.e., human) streak, the movies underlined Rodriguez's sense of family: both his actual brood (his wife produces, his cousin Danny Trejo co-stars) and the local filmmaking community. (Mike Judge and Richard Linklater, two dons of the Austin movie Mafia, acted in the series...
...what Rodriguez really wants to do is entertain, using sight gags, computer sorcery, fast farce and funny town names (San Diablo!). A pinwheel of inexhaustible ingenuity, he had the kids in the first film pursued by an army of giant thumbs ("I snap my fingers," says a nutty TV clown, "and my fingers snap you"), and in the second one swordfighting a pirate band of Ray Harryhausen skeletons. Here were terrific adventures that paid homage to old films while they extended...