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...indifference to the country's misery. Bolivia (pop. 8.8 million) is South America's poorest country, and job losses resulting from industrial privatization have forced an estimated two-thirds of its work force into the underground economy. Indigenous farmers have seen their fields of coca - Bolivia's most lucrative crop, used to make cocaine and herbal medicines - eradicated as part of the U.S. drug war. Alternative crops like coffee usually earn only a tenth of coca's price in today's depressed global markets. These grievances helped catapult Evo Morales, an Andean Indian who represents coca farmers, into a runoff...
...They’re the cream of the crop. They don’t get any better than that. These three kids raised the bar for our program. The Balestracci name is alive and well, even though they’re gone. There’s a certain legacy behind them, and kids try to emulate all three of them...
...They’re the cream of the crop. They don’t get any better than that. These three kids raised the bar for our program. The Balestracci name is alive and well, even though they’re gone. There’s a certain legacy behind them, and kids try to emulate all three of them...
Thinking ahead to graduation, Westfall noted that a few of last year’s seniors have already come back and warned the current crop about how much they are going to miss soccer...
Only 10 percent of the country’s normal winter wheat harvest will be reaped this month. There are no seeds available in the country, which was once self-sufficient and a leader in Africa. Plantings for subsistence maize and cash crops will be much reduced this October and November. The money-earning tobacco crop was 20 percent smaller this year than before. Inflation is running at 600 percent per year—and rising. The Zimbabwe dollar, once on par with the U.S. dollar, is now devalued to a 6000 to 1 ratio with American currency. Under these...