Founded by ex-special-forces soldiers, the Zetas started out as musclemen for the Gulf cartel, then turned on their masters and built a criminal empire of their own. More than any other group, they managed to create a powerful brand identity, converting their trademark "Z" into a dreaded symbol of sadism and brutality across Mexico and much of Central America.
By scarcely mentioning race but utilizing photos in court that showed Trayvon as a budding “predator,” the prosecution tapped long-standing negative stereotypes about black men that date back to antebellum America, what the historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad calls the “condemnation of blackness” and law professor Michelle Alexander has referred to as the “New Jim Crow.”
Lawyer Boris Molina said that his clients would not be satisfied until the Legislative Assembly complies with the court's recommendations and passes a law regulating in vitro fertilization.
Europe is furious about allegations that the U.S. government has been bugging European embassies and missions in apparent violation of a 1961 convention on diplomatic relations.
A labor lawyer charges that Drummond Co. paid right-wing paramilitaries to terrorize the population along the 120-mile rail line from Drummond's two mines to its port on the Caribbean, torturing and killing innocent people to keep them from giving haven to the FARC.
