Word: braziller
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Moreno said he was speaking for Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela...
According to Salonga, the Aquino government found "smoking gun" documents at Malacanang Palace, the presidential residence, that link Marcos with bank deposits in Brazil, Switzerland and the Bahamas, as well as with property in the U.S. Salonga said the papers prove that Marcos used intermediaries to buy properties in New York, including a shopping complex in Manhattan and a posh estate on Long Island. Total value: approximately $350 million...
...return from France. Since the two countries have no extradition treaty, the move was seen in Haiti as a face-saving gesture by a regime increasingly regarded as too sympathetic to Duvalier cronies. There was widespread outrage when it was disclosed that the council had given safe passage to Brazil to Colonel Albert Pierre, head of Baby Doc's feared political police and a man said to enjoy taking a personal role in torture. Days later, an angry mob at the Port-au-Prince airport forcibly prevented retired Duvalier Secret Police Chief Luc Desyr from boarding a flight...
...meetings with Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Secretary of State George Shultz and Treasury Secretary James Baker. Meanwhile, Peru suddenly withdrew its gold, silver and cash reserves from U.S. banks to prevent any effort by Washington to freeze them. When foreign ministers and finance chiefs from five major debtors--Brazil ($104 billion), Mexico ($97 billion), Argentina ($49 billion), Venezuela ($32 billion) and Peru ($14 billion)--gathered late in the week near the Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este for an emergency meeting, they drafted an urgent plea for more lenient terms from Western banks...
...Brazil, however, which imports 49% of its 990,000-bbl.-per-day consumption of crude, will get a big boost from less expensive fuel. The country expects its 1986 oil bill to be $2.8 billion instead of a previously estimated $4.8 billion. The developing world's largest debtor, Brazil has been able to keep up with its payments lately, thanks to a roaring economy that grew 8% last year. But the country will have to curb that feverish growth to cut inflation, which reached 233% in 1985 and appeared to be headed for 500% this year. Last week President Jose...