Word: dam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most productive loans were for development projects like dams, factories and roads, which can help build the basis for future prosperity. Brazil, for example, borrowed $7.5 billion to make its steel industry into a world-class competitor. But many other projects turned into financial sinkholes, in part because of bad planning and incompetent management. Brazil and Paraguay are cooperating in the construction of Itaipu, the 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...
...second mural is drawn from his experiences with the railroad. While he was building a dam in Arizona, a horse and carriage he was driving panicked atop the dam and started falling down the slope. "As he was falling he prayed to God to see his parents again and then he hit a boulder which stopped his fall. He felt that it was God that saved him," Valtierra relates. The vivid blue and grey and white mural depicts his grandfather's fall...
...Amazon region may be able to form closer links and pacify some of the contintent's most troubled border regions. As Kandell notes, this has already taken place along the Paraguayan-Brazilian border, where the two nations have been united by the building of the world's largest hydroelectric dam on a river which separates the two nations. Unfortunately, this analysis is overly optimistic; the increased importance of frontier areas can just as easily create new tensions. The recent discovery of oil deep in the jungle along the border between Ecuador and Peru, for example, has only intensified the long...
...settlers in the agricultural regions newly carved out of jungle has had the unexpected side effect of creating large numbers of poor squatter settlements, where would-be settlers wait to receive land. In Paraguay, the sudden influx of large numbers of settlers to the region around the Itaipu dam has caused many Paraguayans to become concerned over the security of the border...
During a security check at Mancotal--a strategic dam on the road to Pantasma--a boy-FSLN militiaman poked his head in to the doorway of the bus and smiled. In peacetime, he and thousands of other Nicaraguan youths might be playing soccer or baseball, but our government's backing of the Contras, makes this vision of childhood, especially for those who live close to the Honduran border, virtually impossible...