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...estimated 4 million to 30 million that remain undiscovered. While most of these unknown species are insects, even a creature as garrulous and brightly colored as a parakeet of the genus Pyrrhura (its species name has not yet been assigned) eluded researchers until it was first sighted in Ecuador in 1980. "No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude," says Wilson. "We don't know for sure how many species there are, where they can be found or how fast they're disappearing. It's like having astronomy without knowing where...
...other side of the world, along the spine of the Andes in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, both the lower and middle classes have begun smoking coca paste, a potent and addictive form of cocaine that costs only pennies a cigarette. "These countries have never had a problem like this before," says Manuel Gallardo, chief of the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "Their people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they...
...volts of low-current electricity block the effects of a venomous snakebite? Dr. Ronald Guderian has no answer; he knows only that the treatment seems to work. "After we help people, we can ask questions," says Guderian, an American missionary physician working in the Amazon rain forests of Ecuador. Snakebites account for 4% of deaths in the region, and survivors sometimes suffer tissue damage that can lead to gangrene and amputation of the affected limb. But as reported in the July 26 issue of the Lancet, a British medical journal, Guderian has successfully treated 34 Ecuadorian Indians with electric shocks...
...fastest-growing segment of the approximately $125 billion illicit U.S. drug market. American soldiers will remain in Bolivia for at least two months, transporting the Leopards on search-and-destroy missions into the countryside. U.S. officials are said to be reviewing similar requests for military assistance from Peru, Ecuador and Colombia -- countries that, along with Bolivia, produce almost all the cocaine sold in the U.S. and Western Europe. Moreover, the day after U.S. forces landed in Bolivia, President Reagan's senior aides met in the White House to discuss steps to curb America's demand for drugs...
...World Bank is accelerating its lending to meet the Treasury Secretary's goal. Last week the bank said it expected that by the end of June it will approve $2.8 billion in loans to six Latin American nations, including Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and Mexico. Some $1 billion is earmarked for Mexico, $400 million of which will be used to rebuild the structures destroyed by last September's earthquake. Colombia will receive $176 million for irrigation and rural transport. The bank's actions cap a period of record lending. For the fiscal year that ends in June, World Bank loans...