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...from revolutionaries to mass murderers, to record their tales and thoughts on rusty typewriters or hidden scraps of paper. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the first published writings of a major Mexican drug trafficker have emerged from one of the nation's top penitentiaries. Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo, arrested in 1989 and convicted of being the most powerful Mexican narcotics trafficker of his time, has written 36 pages that mix memories, ideas and reactions to current events from his cell in Mexico's Altiplano prison. After being passed from Félix Gallardo's son into...
Scrawled on whatever material he could find, the memoirs offer valuable insight into the history and thinking of kingpins even as Mexico suffers unprecedented levels of drug-related bloodshed. Félix Gallardo, now 63 and in poor health, does not deny that he trafficked cocaine and heroin into the United States. Indeed, in one passage, he nostalgically referred to himself as one of the "old capos." However, he also pointed a finger at Mexican politicians for failing to provide for the poor, making them turn to crime. He also reiterated the point - already conceded by the Mexican government - that...
...fight over the best way to protect a beloved character who has attained cultural icon status in France - not least because Asterix endearingly personifies countless French traits that test outsiders' patience. What's at stake is the very appeal of the brainy but diminutive Asterix, super-sized Obélix, and canine chum Dogmatix (Idéfix in the original French...
...bleak emotional Siberia inside the Carpenter Center. I’ve never had a reason to expect anything besides the cold concrete walls of the main gallery here. And yet, defying their stark surroundings, hundreds of golden candies gleam upon the grey floor in front of me. Félix González-Torres’s “Untitled” (Placebo – Landscape – For Roni) is a brilliant surprise, finding appropriate context in Le Corbusier’s stark modernist complex. The exhibition, curated by Helen Molesworth, Harvard University Art Museum?...
...José Félix Alegría Benítez was born on July 31, 1985. He is survived by father José E. Alegría, owner of OBRA Gallery in Old San Juan, mother Yolanda Benítez, a lawyer, and sister Carolina Alegría, an incoming freshman at Amherst College...