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...decision to stay or go may not be Arroyo's. Almost since she came to power, her administration has been buffeted by allegations of corruption every bit as audacious as Estrada's. During the 2004 election, Arroyo was recorded talking on the phone to Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. Her political enemies charged that the oddly oblique conversation concerned the massaging of voting returns - a charge Arroyo has denied. The resulting impeachment attempt in the country's lower house of Congress was blocked by Arroyo's political allies. Her courting of foreign investment has also drawn fire. In early October, Arroyo...
...dusk and it is still sweltering. The parade has ended and everyone around me is either tipsy or covered in foam or both. And then, just as I summon up the courage to jump in, Alice in Wonderland stops alongside me and scratches his beard. At 61 years old, Virgilio Borba has seen a few carnivals in his time, but blocos like this, he says, are almost like the old days. "Our lives are spent inside, in shopping malls, offices, gyms, apartment buildings," he says, remarkably thoughtfully for a man dressed in a pinafore and with...
...committee to seeing him at a villa used by his aides to distribute bribes and sleep with prostitutes. And on Wednesday, a federal prosecutor charged 40 people in connection with the scandal, including Jose Dirceu, the man who was Lula's closest advisor for years. Says opposition Senator Arthur Virgilio: "Lula has run a corrupt government, one that is completely unstable from an ethical standpoint and incompetent from an administrative standpoint...
...HUPD officer observed a trespasser at 35 Dunster Street. The officer arrested 38-year-old Virgilio Proenca of Cambridge for warrant service...
When Father Virgilio Elizondo was growing up in the west-side barrio of San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican immigrants, he found the church to be a refuge. "The parish was the only institution in the city where we felt fully at home," he recalls, "fully free to express ourselves in our own language, our singing, our festivities, our worship." As rector of his city's historic San Fernando Cathedral for 12 years, Elizondo became a leader in bringing Mexican religious customs and traditions into the Catholic service. His annual Christmas posada, for example, re-enacts the pilgrimage...