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Protesters helped topple President Lucio Gutierrez last week, the third time street rage has booted the national government since 1997. He is trying to leave the country for Brazil, which granted him asylum...
...already far behind on its payments. Indeed, the U.S. Government last week suspended new aid to Peru because of a law requiring a cutoff of funds to countries that are more than a year in arrears. But his policy might set a dangerous precedent: if such debtors as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, which together owe more than $200 billion, were to limit payments to a fraction of export earnings, many large U.S. banks might face a squeeze on profits...
Other disturbing questions were raised by Dr. Ali Z. Hameli, chief medical examiner of the state of Delaware and the forensic expert who identified the six-year-old remains of Nazi Josef Mengele last summer in Brazil. Retained by Goode's commission, Hameli found what appeared to be buckshot fragments in three of the bodies among the six adults and five children who died in the Move house. The Philadelphia police had testified that they did not shoot at Move members trying to escape the fire. Hameli's testimony, based on his findings, was that the cause of the deaths...
During the past decade, however, the cartel has found it increasingly difficult to support prices because world demand for tin dropped while non-cartel countries were expanding production. Industrial use of tin slumped when manufacturers turned to other metals and plastic. Meanwhile, Brazil, not a member of the cartel, had become the world's fifth largest producer by 1984. The combination of decreased demand and increased production created a global oversupply...
Iguazu Falls, as Eleanor Roosevelt famously observed, "make the Niagara look like a kitchen faucet." This may be an exaggeration but not by much?after all, the Iguazu Falls are four times wider than Ontario's most famous body of water. Located amid lush rainforest at the border of Brazil and Argentina, they present one of the best (and most deafening) opportunities you will ever have for an encounter with the unbridled power of nature. The Brazilian side has the panoramas, while the Argentinean side offers proximity to the falls themselves. But viewing from both sides is necessary to complete...