Word: argentinas
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Some major arms importers are exporting as well. India, for example, sells rifles to Tanzania, while Jordan recently exported aging British-made tanks to South Africa (which were quaintly listed on the shipping manifests as "earthmoving tractors"). Argentina has been developing its defense industry during the past decade by manufacturing arms under license; for example, it has built more than 100 of the French AMX-13 tanks. The Argentines are currently trying to interest South Africa and Bolivia in the Pucara, an Argentine-designed counterinsurgency plane made with French, British, Swiss and Belgian components...
Latin America is also enmeshed in an arms buildup. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela are sufficiently prosperous to modernize their arsenals. They have purchased frigates and submarines from West Germany and Britain, Mirage fighter-bombers and howitzers from France and jet trainers from Italy. Peru last year startled its neighbors and Washington by turning to Moscow for arms costing about $85 million?some 600 T-54 and T-55 tanks, plus artillery and antiaircraft guns and missiles...
Hour of the Furnaces, An anti-imperialist film analyzing, "with great emotional intensity," colonial incursions into Argentina by Spain, England, and the United States. Part of the Latin American Film Series sponsored by the Chile Action Group, Series tickets are available scheduled for the coming weeks are Blood of the Condor, Lucia, The Traitors, and Mexico: The Frozen Revolution...
...South America, writers still seem willing to tackle the long, complex novel of politics, society and class. Open to most literary influences and rarely shy about blending them, Latin American authors frequently give the impression that they are catering a novel rather than composing one. There are exceptions. Argentina's Jorges Luis Borges, for example, builds exquisite doll houses from bits of literary history, fantasy and skeptical philosophy. He has become, not surprisingly, one of the major influences on contemporary U.S. fiction. But the Latin appetite for the big bite has in recent years produced one unquestionable masterpiece...
Here is IPI'S scorecard: In South America, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil all have a muzzled press; Bolivia and Argentina are heading that way; and Chile's newspapers have dwindled from eleven in the days of Allende to five today...