Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thunder of violent drums. We feel the winds of storms." Despite such rhetoric, most of the debtors chose negotiation over confrontation. Mexico persuaded the banks to stretch out its payments on $48 billion in loans, originally due between now and 1990, over 14 years at reduced interest rates. Brazil is seeking similar concessions. Argentina, however, played financial chicken with the banks, coming close to default. A day before one deadline, the country was bailed out by loans from several of its debt-ridden neighbors, including Mexico and Brazil. Argentina finally consented to an economic adjustment program overseen by the International...
...from communication with the outside world. After more than six hours, Anderson was released on $2,500 bond and flown to New Delhi, while his colleagues remained in custody. "Somebody has to say that our safety standards in the U.S. are identical to those in India or Brazil or some place else," Anderson said after his release. "Same equipment, same design, same everything...
...Cubatao, Brazil, Feb. 25,1984. Gasoline from a leaky pipeline in this southeast Brazilian town exploded into a giant fireball that killed at least 500 people...
Donald E. Gall Manaus, Brazil...
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...