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...tourists. Tzotzil Indians who have broken off from the Mexican government, they patiently answered questions about their village of rutted streets and shuttered shops, donning ski masks and bandannas only when it came to picture taking. "As indigenous people, we are threatened and exploited," said council president Lucas Hernandez Ruiz. "We are happy you have come from afar to witness our resistance...
...those on the bus are concerned, best seen in the rear-view mirror. They had hoped to travel through Mexico and cross its northern border to the promised land. Instead, they're riding the Deportation Express--no change of destination allowed. "We're not criminals!" yells Nelson Lucero Ruiz, 37, a carpenter from Santa Ana, El Salvador. Stone-faced, the khaki-shirted Mexican immigration official at the front of the bus says nothing...
...nobody was listening. What little tolerance existed in Tijuana for electronic music was obliterated by the arrival in the early '90s of rock en Espanol, an irony-free form of hard rock. Artefakto broke up, but Mogt and his friend Melo Ruiz, 32, kept experimenting with techno and electronica under the name Fussible (foo-SEE-blay) and sending out tapes to record companies. "Our music was too strange for the Mexican labels," Mogt recalls. "They kept telling us to make it more pop or put vocals on. The European labels thought it was too old and unoriginal, because in Europe...
...King lured IBF and WBC heavyweight titlist Hasim Rahman by reportedly giving him $500,000 in $100 bills, a check for $4.5 million and guaranteed access to King's extensive guanxi network.) The title bouts feature Rahman fighting journeyman Brian Nielson, as well as EVANDER HOLYFIELD taking on John Ruiz. "Chinese are like flowers growing up in the fields that bring beauty to the world," King told a bewildered press. Then, with uncharacteristic prosy, King billed the event "Melee in China." (Newspaper editors did him better, choosing RAGING IN BEIJING.) This King-China alliance presages Cold...
produced by Nicole Ruiz '02 and Suzanne Baron...