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...bloodied and bound on a concrete floor. Naked, hooded bodies lie tangled in a pile. A blindfolded prisoner stands in red women's underwear. The scenes of abuse by U.S. military prison guards in Abu Ghraib, near Baghdad, are unmistakable, almost as much as the painter's style. The Colombian artist Fernando Botero is, by his own admission, best known as "the painter of fat people," and his American soldiers and Iraqi prisoners are as rotund as his comic ballerinas. But there's no humor here. His 48 paintings and drawings of Abu Ghraib have a haunting grimness that "came...
...Colombia with kidnapings, bombings and hostage-taking incidents. Last week's operation was the most violent of all. Its apparent purpose: to "denounce" the government for "betraying" a 1984 government-guerrilla truce that was abandoned by M-19 last June. But the rebels failed to anticipate the ruthlessness of Colombian authorities...
From the outset, the government of President Belisario Betancur Cuartas refused to negotiate. Within minutes of the takeover, Bolívar Plaza was teeming with soldiers and police. Armored cars arrived with sirens blaring. The Colombian army and paramilitary police units responded with a fury that the newspaper El Tiempo called "the most spectacular counter-guerrilla operation in contemporary times." Said one journalist who was at the scene: "It was total...
When Nevado del Ruiz, the Colombian volcano, blew up last week after 400 years of dormancy, the news did not take long to reach B. William Mader, TIME's deputy chief of correspondents. Already up and around at 6 a.m. in his New York City apartment, Mader dispatched Caribbean Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich to Colombia, then quickly ascertained that TIME's Tom Quinn, who works out of Bogotá, was already on the story. As the death toll mounted, Mader decided to send Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was covering Halley's comet, to Bogotá to join...
Mader's instincts were on target. On Friday morning, Managing Editor Jason McManus decided to put the Colombian disaster on the magazine's cover. World Senior Editor Henry Muller quickly mustered a team of editors, writers and reporter-researchers to deal with the mass of information. Says Muller: "Each hour we got a better idea of the extent of the tragedy. We tore up the World section and changed the whole direction of the week's effort...