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Likeability gap seems to hold Fenty back
Mayor struggles against voters’ disenchantment
in D.C. race against Gray BY MARC FISHER
Mississippi Avenue SE feels like it’s
having a block party. Horns beep, music blares. Some people wave signs at pass- ing cars, while others pull up beach chairsandsoak it all in.Chants crisscross the street all day: “Need some change around here! Gray
for a change!” “Test scores up! Crime rate down!Four
more years!” The signs and volunteers supporting
Vincent C. Gray for mayor greatly out- number those forMayor Adrian M. Fenty onthis sunny day in Southeast, butFenty, undaunted by his deflated position in the polls, has waded into hostile territory. Themayorwhojust four yearsagowon
the most sweeping victory in the Dis- trict’s history, prevailing in every election precinct, now walks a gantlet of shouts, insults and overt acts of disdain. A retired man refuses the mayor’s handshake.The head of the city’sMinori- ty Contractors and Business Association, Robert Green, shouts at him: “How long you going to keep apologizing?Minority contractors can’t get no work.” A woman tells Green not to waste his breath: “Don’t you know he won’t listen because you’re not white?” A very loud white man wearing a Gray
T-shirt keeps screaming, “Sinclair Skin- contenders continued on A22
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Road through segregation
Guidebook that held black travelers’ hands reveals a vastly different District
BY J. FREEDOM DU LAC The old Holleywood tavern at Ninth
and U streets NW, one of just eight bars inWashington listed as open to blacks in 1949, is now the indie-rock bar, DC9. Where the Brass Rail restaurant once served blacks who were excluded from most downtown eateries, there is now a day-care center for toddlers and infants. Green’s, a beauty parlor on 18th, south of U, is now a Peruvian restaurant. Half a century after the edition of the
Negro Motorist Green Book with those D.C. listings was published, playwright Calvin Alexander Ramsey stumbled upon the book,whichwas once a kind of Fodor’s Black America — a travel guide for African Americans road-tripping in an era of racial segregation. Ramsey was at a funeral in Atlanta
eight years ago when an elderly New Yorker first mentioned the book to him. That exchange launched Ramsey on a journey that arrives Wednesday at the Lincoln Theatre for a Green Book-cen- tered night including a reading of his play, also called “The Green Book.” Ramsey has also written a children’s book about the guide that became the bible of black travel during Jim Crow — and he’smaking aGreenBook documen- tary, too. With a quotation fromMark Twain—
“Travel is fatal to prejudice” — on its cover, the guidebook was published annually from1936 until the CivilRights Act of 1964 rendered it obsolete. The book, inspired by guides that told Jew-
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DOMINIC BRACCO II FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Martha Garnica was arrested in a sting operation while working forU.S. Customs and Border Patrol at the crossing between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez,Mexico. THE INSIDE WOMAN BY CECI CONNOLLY
el paso—She lived a double life. At the bordercrossing,shewasAgent Garnica,a veteran law enforcement officer. In the shadows, she was “La Estrella,” the star, a brassy looker who helped drug cartels make a mockery of theU.S. border. Martha Garnica devised secret codes,
passed stacks of cash through car win- dows and sketched out a map for smug- glers to safely haul drugs and undocu- mented workers across the border. For that she was richly rewarded; she lived in a spacious house with a built-in pool, owned two Hummers and vacationed in Europe. For years, until an intricate sting oper-
ation brought her down in late 2009, Garnica embodied the seldom-discussed role of theUnited States in the trafficking trade.
Cartels based inMexico, where there is
Martha Garnica was, in the words of prosecutors, a “valued asset” of the Mexican crime syndicate La Linea, directing the movements of at least five men, four ofwhomare in prison or dead. “In order to stay in business, the drug
a long history of corruption, increasingly rely on well-placed operatives such as Garnica to reach their huge customer base in the United States. It is an argu- ment often made by Mexican officials — that all the attention paid to corruption in their country has obscured a similar, growing problem on the U.S. side of the border. The cartels have grown so sophisticat-
ed, law enforcement officials say, that they are employing Cold War-era spy tactics to recruit and corrupt U.S. offi- cials.
trafficking organizations have to look at different methods for moving product,” saidThomasFrost,anassistant inspector general in the Department of Homeland Security. “The surest method is by cor- rupting a border official. The amount of money available to corrupt employees is staggering.” In late August, Garnica’s double life
ended. U.S. District Judge David Briones sentenced her to 20 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to six counts of drug smuggling, human trafficking and brib- ery. She was, in the words of prosecutors,
a “valued asset” of the crime syndicate La Linea based in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, directing the movements of at least five men, four ofwhomare in prison or dead. “Everybody makes mistakes,” she said
in court, wearing handcuffs and an or- ange prison jumpsuit. “I take responsibil- ity formy mistakes.” Garnica’s saga—pieced together from hundreds of pages of court testimony, tape-recorded conversations, and inter- views with border officials, investigators, undercover agents and members of the judiciary — underscores the enormous challenge facing the United States as it tries to curtail the $25 billion-a-year business of illegal drug trafficking. Corruption isonthe rise in the ranksof
U.S. lawenforcementworkingtheborder, and nowhere is the problem more acute than in the frontline jobs with Garnica’s
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ABCDE A strained remembrance
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
MIX OF GRIEF AND DISCORD
Observances mark Sept. 11 anniversary
BY ANN GERHART AND DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD CAROL GUZY/THE WASHINGTON POST
ElizabethManchester, inNewYork, lost colleagues and classmates in the attacks on theWorld Trade Center.
Moments of silence and reminders of American freedoms have become the healing rites ofremembranceonSeptem-
ber 11. On Saturday, heated arguments about the legacy and lessons of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the nation’s history finally seeped into the day itself. Pleas for tolerance at somber memori-
al services were followed by shouting at demonstrations over a planned mosque near New York’s Ground Zero as thou- sands marked the anniversary of the attacks. In services at the Pentagon, at Ground
Zero and at a fledgling national park in Shanksville,Pa., political leaders spoke of the sense of shared purpose that pre- vailed after terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001. President Obama reprised a theme that his pre-
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cedessor emphasized in those first weeks while the country was still reeling: the importance of religious tolerance and respect for Islam. “As Americans we are not—and never
will be—at war with Islam,”Obamasaid, as survivors of those who perished lis- tened, a fewnodding. “It was al-Qaeda, a sorry band of men which perverts reli- gion. And just as we condemn intoler- ance and extremism abroad, so will we stay true toourtraditions hereathomeas a diverse and tolerant nation.” The day’s events offered a robust ex-
ample of the tradition of free speech. In anniversary continued on A8
U.S. worker’s case reveals how drug cartels get help from this side of border
SALLYJENKINSONMIKESHANAHAN “How does a guy who’s just 5 feet 10 and 175 pounds rise to the top
of the NFL and command larger men to do his bidding all these years? By working the job like a shovel, that’s how.”
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