That very first Derby was won by Aristides in front of an estimated crowd of 10, 000.

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Police said retired Gen Julian Aristides Gonzalez was travelling in a car in the capital, Tegucigalpa, when attackers on a motorcycle opened fire.

BBC: Honduras anti-drug chief shot dead by gunmen

Gen Aristides said recently he believed smuggling had surged since the US limited anti-drugs co-operation with Honduras in protest at the ousting of President Zelaya in June.

BBC: Honduras anti-drug chief shot dead by gunmen

Gen Aristides, director general of the national office for combating drug trafficking, was travelling by car through Tegucigalpa when two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire, police said.

BBC: Honduras anti-drug chief shot dead by gunmen

"BP is not doing this because they want to fund basic research, " says Aristides Patrinos, the former director of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research and now president of biotech startup Synthetic Genomics.

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Garcia from the Calle 18 gang and Aristides Umanzor, aka "El Sirra, " from the Mara Salvatrucha - each backed up by 15 of their top lieutenants - sought out a Catholic bishop and a former leftist congressman to serve as mediators.

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