Word: jacinto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most outrageous part is the role the police and military thugs are believed to play in the crime wave. Last week the Zedillo government had more than 40 people, including Acteal's mayor, Jacinto Arias Cruz, behind bars for their involvement in the massacre. Some of the accused killers reportedly have ties to local and state police. Much of the Mexican public was calling for the resignation of Chiapas Governor Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro, who showed no signs of complying. By Saturday, though, the crisis had claimed interior minister Emilio Chuayffet, who resigned amid charges that he had ignored...
...victim's safe-deposit box the cops find pictures of the governor of California and a very young, very attractive woman engaging in acts of... love? Anyway, the woman is a hooker named Patrice Jacinto (played by red-headed supermodel Angie Everheart). When Corelli goes to talk to her, she takes off and he has to chase her through the alleys of Chinatown, up fire escapes and over roof-tops. All in a day's work for an assistant district attorney. When he catches her, she tells him that she used to take money to sleep with powerful...
...across the hardscrabble state, federal largesse is being ladled out with a generous hand. In the dusty mountain village of San Miguel de Ocosingo, farmer Jacinto Mendoza Lorenzo proudly displays a pair of brand new, apple-green John Deere tractors parked in front of his thatched hut. The vehicles were purchased by Mendoza's ejido, or communal farm, on easy-credit terms arranged by the government. Gazing at the precious tractors, Mendoza says, ``We're interested in working, and the government seems to be interested in helping us do that...
...swept into a rain-gorged gully. In Grimes County, three children drowned when currents washed the car in which they were riding off the road. In Hardin County, a construction worker who decided to take a dip in the floodwaters was swept away and lost. In San Jacinto County, the body of a rancher was discovered among his herd of drowned cattle...
Large swaths of southeastern Texas were deluged by torrential rain and widespread flooding. Pipelines burst under the roiling San Jacinto River, sending burning gasoline snaking downstream. At least 18 people lost their lives throughout the drenched region, and some 13,000 were chased from their homes...