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When Fujimori reaches the top of San Juan de Amancaes, he surveys the hillside and grabs a reporter by the arm: "You see all that color down there? These people never had painted houses before. Do you think Nestor Cerpa painted them? No, they did, with the bank credits they can get now because they own property. Cerpa doesn't have any support here--none at all." He waves his arm across the panorama: "This is my vaccine against terrorists like the MRTA ever happening again...
...warn against interpreting his welcome in pueblos jovenes as blanket backing. "He shows up in neighborhoods where not many people have work," says one skeptical adviser, "and it's the day's entertainment. Of course they are going to come out and wave." Like Marcial Surco in San Juan de Amancaes: he came out to wave last week, but volunteered in front of Fujimori that he hasn't had steady work in almost a year. Or Jorge Alvarado, 24, a semiemployed accountant in Lima's lower-middle-class Pueblo Libre neighborhood. "I don't agree with Nestor Cerpa taking hostages...
...husband in Rio de Janeiro in 1930, where she was working as a photographer. The couple married and moved to Paris, France, in 1936, where Rey worked as a freelance writer and her husband as an illustrator...
...attempts to intervene in Bosnia and Somalia. Or perhaps apathy toward foreign issues, especially those concerning obscure refugees, do not attract our leaders' interest. During the month of November, while our country was obsessed with presidential elections, turn-overs in Congress and resigning cabinet members, dying Hutus were de-prioritized. Indifference by the government is a direct response to our own lackluster attitude, one which permeates this campus as well. Our preoccupation with immediate concerns has created the new apathy of the nineties...
...dangerous notions are quickly emerging. First is the insistence of the Likud government on practically re-negotiating the Oslo Accords--an agreement that was signed by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, not on behalf of his Labor Party, but on behalf of the Israeli government. Such de facto renegation of signed treaties projects an image of Israel as a country which lacks credibility. Second is the idea that at the end of the 20th century, territorial claims can be made based on ancient religious texts. Imagine the havoc that would wreck Europe, or for that matter most...