Word: argentina
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...Aires to demand information on their "disappeared" children. For the first six years, when a ruthless military dictatorship ruled the land, they were ridiculed as "the Crazy Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" because they weren't silent like all the rest. For the last three years, in which Argentina has enjoyed a return to democratic rule, the mothers of the plaza have continued to don their characteristic white kerchiefs to issue more broad (some will say more ill-defined) demands for social justice...
...newspapers (with one exception) were silent, the courts were a farce, the police formed an arm of the military government and members of opposition groups were being tortured and murdered in some 340 clandestine, Naziesque concentration camps, the mothers were the only group that forced the people of Argentina to face a horror they would have rather continued to ignore...
Among other things, Musich pointed to heartening signs of positive economic growth in two of Latin America's major economies: Argentina (with a foreign debt of about $51 billion) and Brazil (about $107 billion). He forecast that Argentina's economy would grow 4% this year and Brazil's 3.5%. At the same time, Musich noted, Latin American countries have successfully rescheduled payments on $100 billion of their $370 billion in foreign obligations. Last year the Latin debt total grew only 2%, meaning that for the first time in many years the debt actually declined about 2% in inflation- adjusted terms...
Says George M. Taber, senior editor of the World section: "We called them all together at this time partly because we were struck by the fact that nations as diverse as Argentina, Britain and France are all seeking to sell off state-owned businesses and to promote free enterprise." Associate Editor John Greenwald, who wrote the main story in the section, adds, "The comeback of capitalism was a leitmotiv of the conference, and it is one of the significant developments of the 1980s. Governments everywhere, even in China, are finding that free enterprise is the way to develop their countries...
...Third World, even socialist countries like India have increasingly turned to private enterprise in the search for more production and jobs. In Latin America, debt-plagued Argentina, which owes $51 billion to foreign creditors, is striving to dismantle some of the stifling legacy of state enterprise created by former Dictator Juan Peron. Communist nations are making efforts too. In Eastern Europe, small but thriving outposts of free enterprise continue to exist amid the suffocating state presence. Half the wurst and baked goods in East Berlin come from the private sector...