Word: fuegos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrote the cover story, was the Buenos Aires-based bureau chief from 1979 to 1981. He found that "Argentines regard the Falklands issue as an article of faith." Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter, on the scene in Buenos Aires for three weeks, headed south to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego; until ordered back to Buenos Aires late last week by the authorities, he had been the only non-Argentine correspondent in the coastal area close to the Falklands after three British journalists were arrested there and charged with espionage. Says he: "Communications out of Argentina were the only real exasperation...
Hunched down in concrete foxholes, the officers and NCOs fingered the triggers of their M-16s as instructors stood behind, monitoring the shooting exercise. Then came the command to fire: "Comienzen fuego...
...Latin America corruption is pandemic from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego. Bribing in Mexico is handled with the stylized flair of a Latin seduction, beginning with dinner at an expensive restaurant like La Hacienda de los Morales, and climaxing with a weekend jet-jaunt to Punta Cancun or Acapulco. The target of such lavish hospitality is most often the head of purchasing in one of the Mexican government's state ministries, who oversees procurement and importing...
...being the second or third largest producer in the world." But as with the OPEC nations, the country is husbanding its resources by holding back production. Farther down in South America, efforts are now being concentrated offshore, with Exxon and Shell preparing to drill around Tierra Del Fuego, where Charles Darwin once sailed on the H.M.S. Beagle, and the Falkland Islands. A promising area offshore of the heavy oil deposits of Lake Maracaibo is not being tapped because both Venezuela and Colombia claim the region. Politics also hinders Brazil's explorations. The government has invited the oil majors...