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Guillermo Prieto Quintana, police chief of the Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez, resigned in the face of a large increase in violence against law-enforcement officers during President Felipe Calderón's continuing crackdown on drug cartels. Out of 22 senior Ciudad Juárez officials named on a cartel death list, seven have been killed and three wounded; except for one, the rest have quit...
...Socialist voters like Alberto Pérez and Isabel Rua, both of whom work in the theater, focused on their party's social initiatives. "They haven't fulfilled all their promises, Pérez said, "But they've created greater equality for women, they've helped immigrants, they've supported gay marriage. They're a lot better than the alternative...
...literature, which is a surreptitious form of violence.â€As the book proceeds, Bolaño’s seemingly objective portrait of these writers slowly breaks down. In the book’s final portrait, “The Infamous RamÃrez Hoffman,†Bolaño gives up the dispassionate encyclopedist’s voice and instead injects himself directly into the story. He becomes one of the primary characters and narrates in first-person, which, he says, “may be reliable. Or not.†The portrait features...
...contrast to the methods of the 1990s, when Interpol's "red notices" - its alerts for wanted fugitives - were sent by regular mail, arriving in some police stations and border posts weeks later. To be sure, there were some famous red-notice successes, including the capture of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal) in 1994 and the American murderer Ira Einhorn in 1997. But on the whole, says Mathieu Deflem, a law-enforcement expert at the University of South Carolina, "Interpol's system was retarded - very, very underdeveloped...
...irony is that Chávez and Ramírez are adamant that Venezuela can keep delivering to the U.S.--about 1.3 m.b.d., or 12% of U.S. imports. They also insist that in the next few years, investment and output will climb. In 2005 PDVSA launched a seven-year plan, but analysts consider its goals--5.5 m.b.d. by 2012 and $11 billion a year in total investment--a pipe dream. Investment reached half that last year...