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Con los 15 votos de los magistrados de la Corte Suprema de Justicia fue elegido director del Instituto de Medicina Legal (IML), el doctor Pedro Hernán Martínez Vásquez. Hasta hoy él había estado fungiendo en ese cargo de forma interina. El acuerdo fue tomado en la sesión de Corte Plena esta mañana, confirmó el magistrado Óscar López Jerez, quien está fungiendo como presidente de la Corte Suprema por decisión legislativa tomada el 1 de mayo luego de destituir a tres magistrados incluido Óscar Armando Pineda Navas, quien era el presidente. López Jerez detalló que Martínez Vásqu...

>> pitbull! >> as pitbull, armando builds a massive miami following. he picks up the moniker, mr. 305 after the city's area code. ♪ >> the cuban and caribbean flavors of his hometown, peppered with colorful slang, influence the sound of pitbull's 2004 debut solo album, "miami." >> if it wasn't for that atmosphere, i couldn't have started my musical career. >> three more albums follow. pitbull's music matures and so does his image. baggy pants and baseball caps are traded for tightly tailored suits. >> what sooif shoi've shown is through the music business. and people say, why don't you

More than anything, interesting. you're talking about the '80s in miami. everybody was involved, i would say, in extracurricular activities. >> everyone, including armando's father. for a time in his teens, armando follows his father's footsteps into drug dealing. >> i've never been a thug, i've never been a gangster, but i've been a hustler. >> but armando's cuben expatriate dad imparts some useful lessons too. in miami's little havana, he encourages the boy to recite the works of cuban poet, jose martine. >> that was the first time i've seen how powerful words were. so being five years old a...

Together. and to me the world cup is the beginning of that journey. all of this an a dream. the world cup is just the beginning. >> to hook up with the world cup is the biggest global audience that you can get. >> but the audience closest to armando's heart is found at a school in miami's inner city. sports leadership and management academy, or s.l.a.m. is a charter school with a sports themed curriculum armando helped create. he advocates for the school and motivates its students. >> do you guys know pitbull? you see him around a little bit? >> yes. >> that takes morals, right? >> the reason ...

In miami's little havana, he encourages the boy to recite the works of cuban poet, jose martine. >> that was the first time i've seen how powerful words were. so being five years old and being able to move a bar full of people over one poem, it was definitely mind blowing for me, obviously, but it also shows me what my mother has always told me, the pen is mightier than the sword. >> armando's mother, always a strong presence in his life, tries to steer him away from the drug trade, pervasive in the neighborhoods of his youth. >> when did it come to you to say, you know what, this ain't the li...