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Another confrontation between a ruthless First World corporation and exploited Third World labor? No, this is the Venezuela of President Hugo Ch??vez, where any semblance of business as usual is usually unintentional. The miners, who are illegal squatters, were protesting because they say Crystallex is trying to bar them from doing their free-lance work at Las Cristinas--despite the fact that Crystallex has yet to begin operating the mine and, as a result, has failed to create the 1,500 formal, well-paying mining jobs (more than $200 a month, with benefits) that had been promised. Crystallex points...
...miners' demonstration was fueled in large part by Ch??vez's increasingly popular antiglobalist agenda, which he recently put on display at a protest rally in Mar del Plata, Argentina, against President George W. Bush, who was there to push free trade. In another speech, in September, Ch??vez warned that in order to "recover the national power and sovereignty of our resources," Venezuela "will not give any more mining concessions to transnationals," and it may even revoke some. The day after that broadside, Crystallex's share price on the Toronto Stock Exchange plummeted 40%, to $1.50. Shares of other...
...time and place. Haggis' work gains its power from its confident range. The screenplay starts with the Americans on the beaches and the protagonists raising the flag. It follows them on their vulgar war-bond tour (they were obliged to re-enact the flag raising on a papier-mâch?? Suribachi at Soldier Field in Chicago) and then traces their postwar descent into dream-tossed anonymity. You could argue that the Japanese were the lucky ones: their government and religion foreordained their fate, and they had no choice but to endure it. Chance played more capriciously with the Americans...
...past nine years, Tim Padgett has covered Latin America for us, first from Mexico City and now from his base in Miami. He has covered the sudden crises (Elián González comes to mind), the outsize personalities (Hugo Ch??vez of Venezuela is but the most recent example) and the long-running tragedy that is Haiti. He has chronicled the rise of the NAFTA generation in Mexico, the cocaine guerrillas in Colombia and the crusade of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya as he struggled for a national referendum on Castro's rule. We're delighted that for this work...
...bottle. The kits come with basic equipment, yeasts, and juice or concentrate from fruit grown in the same places--in California, France, Italy and other wine regions--that professional wineries use. Just follow the directions, and in four to six weeks you can be uncorking wine from your own ch??teau or apartment. To move beyond kits to get the whole grape-stomping experience, you have to spend at least an additional $400 to buy the basics: grape crusher, strainer, press and barrel...