Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade had changed in recent years. Beaty visited Central and South America, where he had, as he puts it, "whispered interviews with cocaine traffickers in Rio nightclubs, a clandestine meeting with one of Panama's most influential smugglers, and spirited political discussions with coca plantation owners in Bolivia." But given the sheer size, profitability and economic importance of the dope trade, Beaty says, "it wasn't surprising that some of my most secret meetings were held not with cocaine barons but with hard-pressed Latin American prosecutors or opposition politicians, who described the involvement of their country's military...
...Gomez and on reports on the drug trade from twelve Latin American and Caribbean countries. Coordinating much of this coverage was Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who is responsible for TIME's reporting in most of South America. His own travels took him to, among other places, Bolivia's two-mile-high capital of La Paz. There he interviewed Deputy Minister of the Interior Gustavo Sanchez, the country's top law- enforcement official, who has earned the enmity of cocaine racketeers and therefore keeps a machine gun handy by his desk. Mexico City Correspondent Ricardo Chavira investigated Panama...
Uruguay thus became the latest country in Latin America to replace dictatorship with democracy over the past few years. Others include Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama and Peru. Brazil and Guatemala might join the democratic club next year. In Washington, where Sanguinetti is viewed as a moderate who favors close ties with the U.S., a State Department spokesman praised "the manner in which the elections were conducted...
...Bolivia...
After graduating from Buenos Aires' Union Theological Seminary in 1950, he studied with renowned Protestant Theologian Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland. Castro, married and the father of two children, has served as a pastor in Uruguay and Bolivia, and has held several administrative posts, including the presidency of Uruguay's Evangelical Methodist Church. In 1973 he moved to Geneva to become director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. He left that post last year to work on a doctorate...