Word: quinteros
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...hold that mint julep, Rhett: the flag in question is done in red, black and green--the colors of African liberation. In the heart of the city where the first shots of the Civil War rang out, Sherman Evans and Angel Quintero, both 34, both black, have fired a volley of their own. At NuSouth, their 10-month-old boutique, all the gear features that red, black and green flag logo, a symbol, they say, of racial solidarity. "It's about unification, not polarization," says Quintero, noting that most of his customers are white. The line has caught the attention...
...NuSouth partners see themselves as taking on giants like Polo and Tommy Hilfiger. They object to the way those mainstream manufacturers are, in their view, "pimping" urban culture. "A $25 Hilfiger T shirt means nothing," challenges Evans, who, like Quintero, is black. "This is an empowering message for us, by us and about...
...first the logo hit like hot grease in cold water--it caused a high school student to be suspended when she wore it to school in nearby Goose Creek. Passersby have also had visceral, sometimes negative responses. But Evans and Quintero say the reactions are always followed by conversation. Even Confederate loyalists, they claim, have walked out of the boutique as fans--and customers...
Most of the hostages were women, including Diana Turbay Quintero, daughter of a former Colombian President. A TV journalist, she imprudently walked into an Escobar trap, taking a film crew with her. Turbay, 40, was killed during a raid by government security forces. The other fatality was 64-year-old Marina Montoya, a former Bogota belle and the sister of a once highly placed Colombian politician; she was executed with six bullets to the head. Her body, clad in expensive underwear beneath a pink sweatsuit, was then dumped in a vacant...
...every minutely detailed page of this factual account of political kidnappings orchestrated by Escobar. The writer?s respondents are mainly the survivors of a group of prominent residents of Bogot? whom the drug lord held hostage during 1990 and 1991. Most of the hostages were women, including Diana Turbay Quintero, daughter of a former Colombian President. A TV journalist, she imprudently walked into an Escobar trap, taking a film crew with her. By now the world is well acquainted with hostage holding as a grotesque basis for personal relationships. But here the unusual experience of living in close quarters with...