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...this coverage was Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who is responsible for TIME's reporting in most of South America. His own travels took him to, among other places, Bolivia's two-mile-high capital of La Paz. There he interviewed Deputy Minister of the Interior Gustavo Sanchez, the country's top law- enforcement official, who has earned the enmity of cocaine racketeers and therefore keeps a machine gun handy by his desk. Mexico City Correspondent Ricardo Chavira investigated Panama's role as a transshipment point for drug traders...
Even harder to uproot than the coca leaf may be the widespread conviction among South Americans that cocaine is a U.S. problem. "We are putting our lives in danger to prevent drugs from entering the U.S.," complains Bolivian Under Secretary of the Interior Gustavo Sanchez. While U.S. officials claim that it is illicit production that begets consumption, many South Americans contend that the process works the other way round. "The U.S. is to blame for most of this mess," says one Panamanian official. "If there weren't the frightening demand in the States, we wouldn't even have to worry...
Certainly the pilgrim Pope had enjoyed a personal triumph as he addressed millions of listeners in 17 cities. One of the founding fathers of liberation theology, Peruvian Priest Gustavo Gutierrez, applauded John Paul's impact upon his country's poor. "It will raise their self-confidence and their consciousness of their own problems," he said. "The people have lived these days like a celebration." Peru was the Pope's last South American stop, and the spectacular settings were hardly more dramatic than his words. After speaking at the Incan fortress of Sacsahuaman to 80,000 Indians, Pope John Paul chose...
...Peru, a diminutive parish priest chooses his words carefully as he discusses the controversy over his writings that virtually paralyzed the deliberations of his country's 54-member Episcopal Conference for 13 months. Father Gustavo Gutierrez, 56, is a psychologist and author of the 1971 seminal work A Theology of Liberation, which critics have said is imbued with Marxist concepts. Says Gutierrez: "I preach the gospel, nothing else...
...motive for seeking to overthrow Suazo remains in doubt, but law-enforcement sources speculate that the conspirators wanted to reinstate General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, who was deposed last spring as armed forces commander and de facto leader of the country by the current regime. Bueso Rosa, the former Honduran Army Chief of Staff, was demoted and sent to Chile after Alvarez's deposal...