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...metalwork of the ancient Americas are no longer considered mere artifacts of forgotten peoples but art forms that reflect the sophistication of complex civilization. The late Alan Lapiner chose to illustrate his book with outstanding examples of ritual tomb furnishings and gold and silver mummy ornaments from Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Brazil. The result is a trove for collectors and browsers alike...
...OPEC. This might seem ludicrous, but the fact is that bananas are by far the world's most popular fruit, accounting for more than 40 per cent of the world trade in fresh fruits. Their initial goal was to levy a dollar tax on every box of bananas. Ecuador, the biggest producer, dropped out first, and finally only Panama held the line. Honduras agreed to a 25-cent tax. To be sure the agreement would hold, United Fruit paid someone in the Honduran government half of a $2.5 million bribe; soon afterward, a group of young officers overthrew President Lopez...
...Ecuador, armed troops last August broke up an international meeting on human rights that had been organized by the Bishop of Riobamba. Herding the visiting clergy to army headquarters at gunpoint, the police expelled 15 bishops (four of them from the U.S.) and 22 priests from nine other nations for inciting "subversion...
Died. Camilo Ponce Enriquez, 64, former President of Ecuador (1956-60); of a heart attack; in Quito. Ponce, elected as a Conservative with a plurality of only 29%, won liberal support by leveling his country's raging inflation and stabilizing its economy. His administration was followed by a series of coups and military juntas...
Almost all the foreign students find that most Harvard students seem to care very little about the world outside the American borders. "I thought everyone here would be so smart--I mean, this is Harvard," says Juan Pitarque '77, from Ecuador. "I guess they are intelligent, but some of them don't even know Ecuador is in Latin America...