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...Argentina's capital city of Buenos Aires awoke under an acrid cloud as an ecological disaster of major proportions covered the city. Thick smoke from out-of-control grass fires raging in the large islands of the Parana River Delta some 30 minutes north of the city rolled over urban areas, resulting in the closing of airports, ports and bus terminals. Meanwhile, the authorities were forced to block highway motor traffic following a number of fatal acciddents on smoke-choked national roads. The air has been unbreathable; asthmatics were suffering, as were infants...
...changed her life. Not that it turned the former kindergarten teacher into the sort of princess that appeared in the fairy tales she might once have read to her class - Telpuk's meteoric rise to national fame was consecrated by her naked appearance on the cover of February's Argentina edition of Playboy. But it's the suitcase she's holding in that photograph, bearing the flags of Argentina and Venezuela, and the cover line "Corruption Laid Bare" that reveal the story of how she became a household name...
...suitcase in question came into Telpuk's life in the wee hours of a late shift she'd been asked to work as a security officer in Argentina's National Aeronautics Police (PAN), stationed in the VIP section of a Buenos Aires airport. Scanning the luggage of passengers debarking a flight from Venezuela, she noticed one that was densely packed with rectangular shapes. On inspection, they turned out to be bricks of bank-notes amounting to $790,550. "He didn't seem to be particularly nervous," says Telpuk of the bag's owner, Venzuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson...
...Telpuk says she nearly fell over. "I had never seen so much money together in my life." Because the legal limit of undeclared cash that visitors are allowed to bring in to Argentina is $10,000, Telpuk alerted her superiors and Antonini Wilson was whisked away for questioning. Within days, however, the businessman had departed for Florida, amid rumours in the press that the money had been an illegal contribution from Chavez for the electoral campaign of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Both leaders denied the charge, with the Argentinean president suggesting it was part of a U.S. plot...
...will also do a lot for Colombian cinema, which came of age in 2004 with the Oscar-nominated, Colombian-U.S. production, Maria Full of Grace, and looks set to join Mexico, Brazil and Argentina as Latin American countries with bona fide industries. All have been aided in recent years by new government financing and generous tax breaks for businesses that invest in film - sources that made up almost a quarter of Paraiso Travel's $4.7 million cost. The movie takes the Colombian boom up a notch, into the realm of films like City of God that Latin American critics...