In recent years Esparragoza's conciliatory image has meant he has rarely been publicly associated with the vicious rivalries within and between cartels that underpin much of the brutal drug war violence in Mexico since 2005.
THE Winter Olympics in Turin is the site of brutal combat, dramatic rivalries and tests of cunning and will.
Chlotar was ruthless and brutal, and the family rivalries and sometimes open hostilities in which he figured prominently were characteristic of Merovingian history; in 560 he even had his rebellious son, Chram, together with Chram's family, put to death.
Since Vietnam's ouster of the brutal Khmer Rouge in 1979, his rivalry with his half-brother Prince Norodom Ranariddh, now president of the National Assembly, has been a leitmotif in Cambodia's alternately farcical and tragic history, with aviation serving as a recurring plot device.
The homicide rate is stoked by the rivalry of the brutal street gangs, mostly descendants of gangs formed in Los Angeles and deported to Central America in the 1990s.
At 4-1, it wasn't quite that, but in such an historic rivalry it was a brutal loss.
No matter how careful the orchestration, though, a rivalry seared in the brutal lowlands of South Carolina circles around to this moment.
The brutal heckling and taunting that have distinguished this rivalry were at a minimum.
