Word: alvarado
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...block Chinatown, it's common to start a meal with deep-fried wonton-dough sticks and a hefty bowl of neon-red sweet-and-sour sauce. "The biggest challenge will be performing as well as in the U.S.," says the new branch's manager, Iván Alvarado. "We have to explain a lot of things to customers at our tables because here in Mexico, we drink soda with Chinese food...
Most Mexican-security experts agree. What's more, says Arturo Alvarado, a security analyst at El Colegio de México in Mexico City, "Programs like Mérida also need to direct more resources at curbing demand for drugs in the U.S. This has to be more about getting at the root causes of the drug war, not flashy short-term gestures that benefit U.S. helicopter manufacturers...
...been five centuries since Pedro de Alvarado, a homicidal Spanish conquistador, seized from the Maya the volcanic realm that became Guatemala. But his bloodlust still haunts the country, which today has one of the highest homicide rates in the western hemisphere. Guatemala's 36-year-long civil war, which ended in 1996, killed 200,000 people. Its cloak-and-dagger murders have made locals so paranoid that "even the drunks are discreet," as one 19th century visitor wrote...
...much about drug-money-laundering. "Rodrigo wanted to talk about the deadly manipulation of laws and lives here," says his half brother Eduardo Rodas. Guatemala has asked the U.N. and the FBI to investigate his murder. After 500 years, Rosenberg's ghost may be the first to challenge Alvarado...
...returned, badly beaten, earlier this week. The abductors' unspoken warning to Mexican and U.S. officials alike: We will no longer tolerate anyone who makes our work more difficult. "Sometimes a kidnapping group takes someone not so much for money but to coerce," says Mexican security expert Arturo Alvarado of the Colegio de Mexico. "This sounds like one of those times...