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MARTIN ESCOBARI--New Bolivian presidentof Harvard Student Agencies can be seen smiling inthe center of the 1993 Let's Go series. We're surehe'd do a good job doing whatever it is that theSecretary of Commerce is supposed...
...which has never experienced such a brutal wave of attacks. Starting in mid-July with a car bomb that killed more than 20 people in the capital, the campaign has flared into a full-scale blitz. Last week bombs destroyed several police stations, a private research center and the Bolivian embassy. Though President Alberto Fujimori, who canceled his trip to an Ibero-American summit in Madrid, has promised a "battle without mercy," his police and army seem helpless...
Relief efforts in Peru have been hampered by a strike among health-care workers. When Bolivia tried to send doctors to the Andean village of Puno, where an outbreak was beginning, the medical team was asked to stay home. Finally the strikers allowed a limited number of Bolivian technicians to disinfect Puno's sewage pipes with chlorine...
...drug traffickers. "At one point," he says, "I actually presided over a conference, with people at all levels of the business explaining to me how it works." Gaining their confidence was not easy. Beaty, who once went through 10 days of screening before being allowed to meet with Bolivian coca baron Roberto Suarez Gomez, knows the first rule: "You have to promise you won't write anything that reveals their identities to the police -- or their competitors...
IMAGINE if the Bolivian government subsidized coca farmers and then pressured the U.S. to allow the importation of processed cocaine. Imagine if Burma appealed to international law to get the U.S. to accept shipments of heroin...