Special to The Tribune
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - The juicy story surrounding the killing of Panamanian acrobat Elaine Benitez has captured the imagination of Panama, and now a publishing company in the Central American country says it will print her murdered husband's last novel.
Libros de Centro America spokeswoman Nancy Lourdes-Melodia told reporters gathered at a Panama City bar late today that her press will publish "Marijuana Girl," a novel Ron Mexico wrote while working for The Tribune. Ron was viciously murdered in Amsterdam last month, after being fired from his reporting job at The Tribune for violating the publication's no-drinking-while-covering-city-hall policy.
Ms. Benitez, an icon in her native country, was shot and killed recently by Ron Mexico, Jr. on the morning of her beach-front wedding to former Tribune Editor Patrick Alcatraz. The younger Mexico remains in solitary confinement at a heavily-fortified, roach-infested federal prison outside Panama City. According to friends of the troubled scion, he was distraught at learning of his stepmother's impending marriage to his father's best friend. Elaine Benitez died after being shot more than six times. Patrick Alcatraz reportedly is living in Montreal with another woman.
Ron Mexico's book, published under his pseudonym of N.R. DeMexico, is a "false memoir" that tells the story of a Brownsville,Texas woman he befriends and later turns-on to Marjuana. According to notes on the book's jacket, it is a work of fiction, although the setting is said to be a variety of distinguishable low-rent cantinas and motels. In one of the scenes, a drug dealer delivers a shoebox full of weed to Ron's motel room and takes his cash and his clothes, forcing Ron to leave the motel in his girlfriend's underclothing.
"There is much anticipation in our country," said Ms. Lourdes-Melodia of the book, which is set for release tomorrow. "We are even sending a copy to our former president, Manuel Noriega, who, as all of you fuckin' Americans know, was imprisoned in Florida before being transferred to France."
Efforts by this reporter to reach Patrick Alcatraz for comment were unsuccessful. A woman answering the telephone at his flat in Montreal said he went out last weekend to buy the newspaper and had, as yet, not returned...
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6 comments:
Maybe Alcatraz, met the same fate that Ron Mexico, met in Amsterdam.
Anonymous:...Well, knowing Patrick, the better odds are that he met another woman at the newsracks and flitted-off with her. You think?... - Editor
Eliot, does Patrick know the meaning of the word "Loyal"?? I mean this guy screws anything with a skirt on. "no offense Patrick" He made a move on Rhianna while having an affair with Benitez, untill her former step son, dealt with her. He was even speaking about marriage, with Benitez, then, he stays out in South America, to cure the blues, sunning on the beach and drinking wine and bruskies.
Now, some woman, answers the phone, but states he has disappeared.
You know, you could be right, a new skirt, a different woman, and life goes. What a life.
Eliot, please no more pictures of Alcatraz or Ron dressed in women clothing. If you would have seen Patrick dressed in a red swimming suit, you would have yelled for help. It was awful, no, please no more. Heck, I can't take another nightmare.
Eliot, just to let you know that my friends, men and women, already had our own grito, (yelled) my neighbor came over, because he thought we were crazy, after a few tequilas, he was doing his own yelling.
ANONYMOUSES:...About Patrick - nothing wrong with designing a life, is there? He can't hear anything but his own soundtrack. As for the Grito, well, we took a swig of booze and threw one out the midnight clouds. Someone next to me said they saw a bird crash to the ground while I was gritoing... - Editor
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