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By the river

Vallejo Nocturno 2007 - river side

Bluejays vs. ND

Vallejo Nocturno 2007- Rain and stuff

others

Vallejo Nocturno 2007 - mis amigos

Blackmailer and assasin

From tribeca "07:

Peruvian filmmaker Francisco Lombardi's "Black Butterfly" is set in 2000, during the last days of the corrupt regime of President Alberto Fujimori, who had engineered the massacre of Indians as a way of containing the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. The most powerful politician in the country, however, was Vladimir Montesinos, who was also a blackmailer and assassin. The film is about a pretty young teacher whose fiance, a judge, Montesinos ordered killed. To exact revenge, she reinvents herself as a girl-for-hire to get near him. Black Butterfly is okay as a thriller, but Lombardi's relentless lesbiphobia is odious. Eytan Fox has always drawn a parallel between homophobia and other forms of injustice. He could teach Lombardi a thing or two.

Red , red , reed

Vallejo Nocturno 2007- Red Like

Paris about two weeks ago

Vallejo Nocturno 2007-night fall

our future ceilings

Vallejo Nocturno 2007 - in nyc

Our terrorist

From the LA Times:

LIKE PIRATES, terrorists are supposedly hostis humani generis — the “enemy of all mankind.” So why is the Bush administration letting one of the world’s most notorious terrorists stroll freely around the United States?

I’m talking about a man who was — until 9/11 — perhaps the most successful terrorist in the Western Hemisphere. He’s believed to have masterminded a 1976 plot to blow up a civilian airliner, killing all 73 people on board, including teenage members of Cuba’s national fencing team. He’s admitted to pulling off a series of 1997 bombings aimed at tourist hotels and nightspots. Today, he’s living illegally in the United States, but senior members of the Bush administration — the very guys who declared war on terror just a few short years ago — don’t seem terribly bothered.

I’m talking about Luis Posada Carriles. That’s not a household name for most U.S. citizens, but for many in Latin America, Posada is as reviled as Osama bin Laden is in the United States.

The Cuban-born Posada was trained by the CIA at the School of the Americas in 1961. From Venezuela, he later planned the successful 1976 bombing of a civilian Cuban jetliner (apparently with the knowledge of the CIA). He was arrested for the crime, but he escaped from a Venezuelan prison before standing trial.

Posada later aided Ollie North’s illegal efforts to get arms to the Nicaraguan Contras, tried repeatedly to assassinate Fidel Castro and was behind a 1997 string of Havana hotel bombings. Recently declassified U.S. government documents suggest that, throughout most of his career, Posada remained in close contact with the CIA.

Posada entered the U.S. illegally in 2005. Human rights groups and the Cuban and Venezuelan governments urged that he be tried or extradited for his terrorist activities, but for several months the Bush administration denied that Posada was even in the United States.

On May 17, 2005, the Miami Herald shamed the administration into action by publishing a front-page interview with Posada (who sipped his peach drink on his Florida balcony, described his leisure reading and commented cheerfully that at first he “thought the [U.S.] government was looking for me” but eventually realized that U.S. officials had no interest in finding him). Only then did the administration detain Posada — but on immigration charges, not terrorism-related charges.

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Vallejo Nocturno 2007 - anti 9/11

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Vallejo Nocturno 2007 - other times