Word: amazonia
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...aerial photography of Latin America to determine the locations of mineral deposits : "[T]here is a clear link between between the imperative need for strategic minerals, indispensable for the maintenance of U.S.-led military-atomic power, and the massive purchase of land - usually by fraudulent methods - in Brazil's Amazonia ... To justify the U.S. air force's aerophoto excursions, the [Brazilian] government had previously declared it lacked the resources for the job. Again par for the course in Latin America: its resources are always surrendered to imperialism in the name of its lack of resources...
...Thursday meeting with foreign journalists, Correa reiterated that the lucrative coca trade is attractive among the remote and economically threadbare border communities. "A large part of the population, above all in Amazonia, on [both] the Ecuadorian and Colombian sides support the FARC," he said, "because the Colombian and Ecuadorian [governments] don't reach them, and the ones who provide jobs, in drug cultivation, etcetera, are the FARC...
Anne Fontaine From the months she spent living with an indigenous tribe in Amazonia, designer Anne Fontaine developed an appreciation for natural materials. With the opening of her first spa, on the lower level of her rue St.-Honoré boutique in Paris, her affinity for nature has come fully to light. The vision of Fontaine and renowned interior designer Andrée Putman, the spa emerges from a waterfall connecting the space's two levels. Once inside, spa-goers may select indulgent treatments like Amazonian Baptism or Bath of the Goddess, which use Fontaine's Cosmetique Bio skin-care line...
...SOUTH AMERICA Among the 300 tongues of Lowland Amazonia are Oro Win (three speakers) and Piraha (300), which has a sound like kids imitating motors and has the fewest consonants (eight) and vowels (three) discovered in a language...