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ALFREDO STROESSNER Paraguay After a 1989 coup ended his 35-year dictatorship, he hightailed it to Brazil, where he lives a luxurious life, with his wife, in a mansion outside the capital of Brasilia...
...divination system involving dice and beads, to make decisions about casting and shooting schedules and was careful to assure his lay Tibetan actors that they wouldn't suffer karmic retribution if the script called for them to rough up a monk for making too much noise during France vs. Brazil. The Cup picked up awards at the Pusan, Munich and Toronto film festivals and, according to the New York Times, established Khyentse Norbu as "a born filmmaker...
...largest carmaker outside the U.S., with 157,000 employees turning out 1.75 million cars a year. Fiat continued to expand through much of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by labor unrest and terrorism. That's one reason Agnelli transferred manufacturing abroad to places like the Soviet Union, Brazil and Turkey, where labor was cheaper and the industrial scene less chaotic than at home. One of those investments, the huge Togliatti plant opened behind the iron curtain in 1970, produced more critics than money, but Agnelli saw a bigger picture: "What we like best of all ... is that...
...Deep in Brazil's semi-arid interior, at the climax of a trip designed to show his cabinet the country's crushing poverty, newly elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva mounted a makeshift stage and, like a lead singer introducing his band, presented his ministers to the crowd of 7,000. Polite applause greeted the parade of bureaucrats - but then Lula called on his Culture Minister and the applause turned into a roar. For more than 30 years Gilberto Gil has been one of the two biggest pop stars in Brazil - a man whose music...
VENEZUELA Friends in Need The international community stepped up its efforts to end the political crisis ruining the economy of Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil producer. A "Group of Friends," including the U.S., Brazil and Spain, pledged to help President Hugo Chavez negotiate an end to the crisis. Since Dec. 2 opponents have used a general strike to force the leftist President to call immediate elections. Chavez met U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan for talks, which were inconclusive...