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...world's largest hydroelectric project, which has a dam almost five miles long. To date, nine years after it was begun, Itaipu has cost $18 billion and has generated not a single kilowatt of electricity for Brazil and only a small amount for Paraguay. Says Joāo Camilo Penna, the Minister of Industry and Commerce: "We have $50 billion worth of incomplete projects with zero degree of usefulness...
...industrial nations are asking the developing countries to slow growth in order to control their economies so that they can pay back part of their huge debts. But the Brazilians are increasingly unwilling to accept those conditions. Says João Camilo Pena, Minister of Industry and Commerce: "If the IMF gives the same medicine to all debtor nations, they will all perish from the cure." As last week's strikes and protests dramatically demonstrate, solutions to the debt dilemma that require stern sacrifices could be a formula for political chaos...
...called, has been documented in a 31-panel photographic exhibition titled "Transformed Houses." Currently at Baltimore's Peale Museum, it will tour some 15 cities, including Los Angeles, Bethlehem, Pa., and Trenton, N.J., through 1984. Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, it was photographed by Camilo Vergara, 37, a conservation specialist for the New Jersey department of energy, who first noticed Bunker architecture when he worked in blue-collar Jersey City in 1976-77. I'm not interested in creating artistic pictures. "I did want to document this organic urban change, which no one has investigated...
...Died. Camilo Ponce Enriquez, 64, former President of Ecuador (1956-60); of a heart attack; in Quito. Ponce, elected as a Conservative with a plurality of only 29%, won liberal support by leveling his country's raging inflation and stabilizing its economy. His administration was followed by a series of coups and military juntas...
...bitter analysis first caught wide public attention in a conference of Latin American bishops at Medellín, Colombia, in 1968 that denounced "institutionalized violence" in Latin American society. The principal architect of the unprecedented statement was a Peruvian priest named Gustavo Gutiérrez, an old friend of Camilo Torres and theological adviser at Medellín. He later wrote A Theology of Liberation (Orbis Books), the movement's most influential text...