Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...switched journalistic gears and moved to San Francisco for the Wall Street Journal. She joined TIME's New York bureau in 1979, pausing to go back to school for a year as a Walter Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University. There she specialized in Latin America, which won her an assignment covering Nicaragua...
...army death squads. Though the evidence presented at the proceedings deals specifically with the disappearance of four people in the early 1980s, no individuals are on trial; rather, the court is attempting to determine if there is a pattern of murderous conduct on the part of Honduras. For many Latin Americans, the missing four may come to symbolize the thousands who have mysteriously and tragically vanished throughout the hemisphere over the years...
Although U.S. officials still view the Bogota government as one of the more cooperative in the narcotics war, Ochoa's release and the Mexican government's continued foot dragging on the Camarena case illustrate the formidable difficulties of the campaign against Latin drug lords. Says DEA Chief Lawn: "Unless Colombia and Mexico can address their problems, there's no way we can deal with the supply of drugs within our own borders...
...difference between the two starts with the words themselves: eccentric, after all, carries a distinguished Latin pedigree that refers, quite reasonably, to anything that departs from the center; weird, by comparison, has its mongrel origins in the Old English wyrd, meaning fate or destiny; and the larger, darker forces conjured up by the term -- Macbeth's weird sisters and the like -- are given an extra twist with the slangy, bastard suffix -o. Beneath the linguistic roots, however, we feel the difference on our pulses. The eccentric we generally regard as something of a donny, dotty, harmless type, like the British...
...against Latin drug lords rages on. -- Israeli expulsions spark new riots. -- Moscow looks for the Afghanistan exit...