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The development of a Chilean weapons industry is an indirect result of the arms embargo that the U.S. imposed on the South American nation in 1976. That was the same year that Chilean secret-police agents in Washington, D.C., murdered Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean Defense Minister whom the government...
If the world can bring off an Olympics with 140 countries from every continent participating, in spite of the pullout of a superpower, then perhaps we are learning to survive.
This is a valuable message, especially for a continent which has seen more than its share of demagogues and false prophets. But Vargas-Llosa belabors the point. A good adventure story even one with as cogent a message as this one, shouldn't go on for 568 pages. Unlike the...
Today the Continent is flooded with IBM computers, Matsushita video recorders and Boeing jetliners. Here and there, innovative Europeans armed with breakthrough discoveries and marketing savvy have elbowed their way into lucrative new fields. But those modest inroads have failed to hide a painful reality: Western Europe has been caught...
The setting is the fictitious country Cuyama, "a tract of land perched uneasily on the sloping shoulder of South America, a degree or two north of the Equator." Aubrey St. Pierre, whose once illustrious family grew wealthy with the aid of sugar-cane plantations and slave labor, harbors guilt and...