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...PERU Golden Mystery Authorities began investigating claims that former President Alberto Fujimori stole $1 billion from the country's coffers, including 53 gold bars worth about $500,000, from the Central Bank, during his 10-year term as President...
...years of improved economic performance under Estrada's predecessor, Fidel Ramos, only to see it wasted by Estrada's erratic leadership. "This is a signal to the international community that the Philippines now has a strong and firm leadership that adheres to the rule of law," says Finance Secretary Alberto Romulo. Translation: Brother, can you spare a billion...
...question is whether Mercosur can survive more fraternal quarrels like that one. Chile is just one of several associate Mercosur members that are tilting toward the NAFTA model. Fears of Mercosur's demise are probably exaggerated, but Alberto Pfeifer, executive director of the Latin American Business Council, which is based in São Paulo, agrees that the bloc is at a crossroads. "If it stays as it is now, an incomplete customs union, it will, I would not say perish, but it will be attacked by the ongoing FTAA negotiations...
...Alberto Fujimori's plummeting public image reached another low as the Peruvian Congress voted to charge the former President with abandonment of office and ban him from holding any other post for an additional 10 years. The Congress has already declared Fujimori morally unfit for the presidency, and the Attorney General's office is mulling criminal charges, which it would file in the Supreme Court. The measures won't have much effect on their intended target, however: Fujimori fled to Japan last November, obtained citizenship and has signaled no intention of returning to Peru...
...straddle these warring demands? One way may be to change the subject by naming the first Hispanic to the court. The names most often cited: new White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who logged two years on the Texas Supreme Court and has a thin paper trail; and Emilio Garza, a federal appellate judge in Texas who is further to the right--and volubly opposes Roe. Republicans hope that a Hispanic pick would tie Democrats in knots, although for some Senators, antiabortion views would outweigh diversity. Naming a woman in O'Connor's place would be a similar tactic. Edith Jones...