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Another interesting Mexico story today (played big on the front by the NYT , which carried the watershed vote inside): it seems that Mexico's most wanted drug dealer, on the lam since February, died after a nine-hour plastic surgery operation.
The Post says the Pinochet ruling is a watershed in human rights law, and the Times says it marks a potentially significant broadening of the powers of prosecutors to pursue those charged with crimes against humanity.
The square (also called by its former name Terreiro do Paço), wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by an assassin’s bullets there in 1908, and it was the site of one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974.
Only Steve Roberts (CNN's Late Edition ) is confident that Willey's testimony will be no "watershed."
Watershed damages (water filtration, flood control)