Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate of $200 to $300 a hectare (2.5 acres). With crops and cattle returning marginal profits in Costa Rica, and interest rates exceeding 20%, he has met with little resistance and hopes to purchase the remaining land by February 1988. Environmentalists are cheering him on. "We as conservationists in Latin America have traditionally (preserved) pristine or virgin areas," says Curtis Freese, the World Wildlife Fund's director of Latin American and Caribbean programs. "Janzen is saying that we can look at largely degraded lands and restore them to natural or close to natural ecosystems...
...Costa Rica), many trees lose their leaves. Unlike the temperate zone's deciduous hardwood forests, however, they do not become fully dormant. Instead, the bare trees flower and bear fruit, which nourishes a variety of mammals and insects. Centuries ago, such vegetation covered 60% of the forest regions of Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and northern Australia. On the west coast of Central America alone, 98% has been chopped down or burned. Says Janzen: "Tropical dry forest is where what you call endangered is dead, and what you call safe is endangered. They have become the breadbaskets...
...biologist hails the Costa Ricans for their support of the Guanacaste project. Since 1970, Costa Rica has been one of Latin America's most conservation-minded countries. It has set aside nearly 20% of its land for parks and reserves -- more than any other nation in the tropics. Janzen admits that he would not have attempted such a large-scale reclamation project anywhere else. But, he says, "I think this is the way of the future. Guanacaste is a demonstration of the fact that you can grow back a tropical forest if the community that lives around it comes...
...year-old antipathy of the Arab states toward Israel. Conventional wisdom holds that a third world war is most likely to begin in that region, but political touts say that Eastern Europe is the horse to watch. The Soviets simply do not have the resources to woo Latin American and African countries and at the same time keep their grip on Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and East Germany. Britain, whose imperial eye took in much of the world a hundred years ago, now struggles with a crippled economy -- a chastening lesson here. Daunting to think that by the time you receive...
...there are doubts in both the U.S. and Central America that they can survive the current ordeal. Last week, as the U.S. press analyzed the contras' prospects in funereal tones, some officials went so far as to offer up eulogies. "I think the counterrevolution is nearly over," said a Latin American military analyst. "If the contras could do something in the next few weeks, that might change things, but they are not capable of it." Even a contra official saw the end coming. "We have got four months to show what we can do," he said. "If we haven...