In some interviews Maradona calls them "my amigos".
The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?" The Tico fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife Maria, stroll into the village each evening, where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos.
A great deal of my alleged kinship with a sadistic child killer seems to stem from the fact that I "goaded" my then amigo Tony Parsons into beating up another member of staff who had "made the mistake of locking horns" with me.
That said, the difference between putting an amnesty on the table of the immigration debate and offering an amnesty to my illegal amigos remains the difference between me putting an Obama's name in my window and yard, and punching Obama's name on my Missouri ballot.
He looks set to move outside his usual repertory cast, which often includes the likes of Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas: "We are involved in casting at the moment, which is complicated because what I've written doesn't quite work with my actores amigos".
So, my ALIPAC amigos, while Dobbs may sound a lot less like that grumpy old man whose rants and rails against immigrants were the cornerstone of your movement, I wouldn't fret.
Nowadays, I try to tell my younger amigos that a disaster is something to be embraced, because as you climb out of a crater, you have a chance to examine the framework that holds everything up.
At just eight times 2007 estimated earnings, Cemex is the cheapest of my three Mexican "amigos".
Beyond that, he occupied a sort of "weird folk demon" category in my head, hovering somewhere between Amigo the Devil, Jandek, and Merle Haggard.
