Word: arroyo
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...that prompted a majority of Estrada's ministers to resign and coaxed the armed forces onto the side of the opposition. The writing was on the wall for Estrada Friday when military commanders appeared at a mass rally to announce that they had transferred their support to Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the vice president who has led the call for Estrada's ouster and who has now taken the reins as president...
...Incoming President Arroyo is a modest and moderate economist and former Georgetown University classmate of President Clinton, and she has vowed to pursue the economic liberalization policies started by the conservative former president Fidel Ramos. But it remains far from clear that Estrada's removal will end the corruption and almost theatrical political instability that have become endemic to the Philippines. Business and politics have been intimately and often improperly intertwined for decades in the Philippines, and the World Bank estimates that corruption has cost the country some $48 billion over the past 20 years. It was precisely by (falsely...
...superpremium tequilas, like La Altena distillery's El Tesoro, or La Gonzalena's Chinaco, made of 100% blue agave. These use nearly twice the fermented agave juice necessary to mix cheaper brands. "What is happening today is a product of what happened in 1991 and 1992," says Javier Arroyo Chavez, president of Mexico's Tequila Regulatory Commission. "No one then ever imagined that the tequila industry would go on to its present success...
...nature and "discovering" the human species, while in hospitals and in jungle clinics exceedingly powerful mutant bacteria are emerging that can't be treated with antibiotics. In the past decade, at least 50 new viruses have appeared, including Ebola Ivory Coast, Andes virus, hepatitis G, Fakeeh, Pirital, Whitewater Arroyo, Hendra virus, Black Lagoon virus, Nipah and Oscar virus. This summer West Nile virus showed up for the first time in the western hemisphere, when it was discovered in New York City...
...friends scout the fence for a hole big enough to wedge through. Strolling with the youths, Officer Macias cautions them to watch out for bandits and flash floods. Farther on, the cops come upon a bedraggled family from Veracruz and talk them out of attempting to ford a flooded arroyo. Though Grupo Beta cannot prevent migrants from crossing, it has moved against the "coyotes" who guide them, arresting 90 in three years. But the special teams themselves are widely suspected, by migrants and U.S. lawmen, of taking payoffs from the smugglers. "They go after us, but they can be paid...