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...Miami A Suitcase Full of Cash Testimony in the trial of Venezuelan businessman Franklin Duran revealed how officials worked to conceal the source of a suitcase filled with $800,000 intended for Argentine presidential candidate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Duran allegedly attempted to silence Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, the man who was caught with the suitcase in an airport in 2007 and who has suggested that President Hugo Chávez was involved...
...positive sign in this week's mess is that both the turf battles and unyielding attachment to deregulation have been abandoned, perhaps forever. The Fed and Treasury have together seized de facto control of the regulation of all financial institutions of significance, and nobody at either agency seems willing to believe anymore that financial markets are invariably right. In March, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson proposed a system in which there would be one regulator (the Fed) in charge of market stability, another tasked with prudential regulation of institutions that rely on government guarantees (at the time it meant just banks...
...Europeans interpret the land - how people choose to manage their space and how, sometimes, they fail to do so - as it is about the land itself. Through it all Franklin, who holds a Ph.D. in geography, demonstrates an artist's flair. He sees Greek-Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico, he says, in the winter light of his Spanish farming photos, and American artist Georgia O'Keeffe in the shapes that form in breaking glacial ice. Most of all, Franklin credits the Romantics and their idea "that these sublime landscapes are both beautiful but terribly precipitous." As the scene from Megalopoli...
...learned his own politics on the streets, leading protests by his fellow coca growers, and he may have been hesitant to use force in light of Bolivia's recent history: In October 2003, 67 people were killed and more than 400 wounded when then-President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada sent the military out against demonstrators disrupting road traffic to protest against a plan to export natural gas to Chile. The violence forced Goni to resign and flee to the U.S., where he remains. Morales has far more political support than Goni, but the memory of military massacre still haunts...
...What’s more, the department has excised the preparedness component of FEMA in order to divert the majority of its funds to counter-terrorism measures. Without the ability to plan effectively, FEMA’s response to natural disasters can be nothing but truncated and uncoordinated. The de-prioritization of FEMA’s mission has severely weakened the organization’s morale, and top disaster specialists, senior leaders, and experienced personnel have left in droves. The dearth of long-term professional staffers is exacerbated by a lack of workers in general: the Louisiana branch, for example...