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...gets. They never think of forming a community to rebel against the government guards, and only belatedly find a way to escape. Meirelles' camera style is plenty jazzy, with an agitated rhythm and the desaturated color scheme from Children of God (another dystopian English-language social parable from a Latin American director); but his characters are as flaccid as those in so many Euro-films we've seen at Cannes over the years. Their feet glued to the floor, they stand in place and wait for destiny to do its worst. It's enough to make you wish that some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Cannes Still Do It? | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...assure that the small South American nation will not renew the lease for the U.S. antinarcotics surveillance base at Manta on Ecuador's Pacific coast. For Correa, "the political costs" of letting the base stay "outweigh the benefits," says Freddy Rivera, a security expert at the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty University in Quito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecuador Targets a U.S. Air Base | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...into place with their foot. Then it's time to pray for rain and hope God delivers consistently through the germination period. It's hard to imagine Nicaragua's rustic peasants being called on to save the day as the global food crisis has doubled average food prices in Latin America over the past year. But riding the campesinos to the rescue is exactly what President Daniel Ortega aims to do in his bid to assume a regional leadership role in confronting the food crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua's Great Leap Forward | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...controlled the export of ecstasy tablets into the U.S. In a perfect example of globalization, a gang headquartered in Tel Aviv was able to mastermind the export of drugs manufactured in Northern Europe, chiefly in Holland and Belgium, to Las Vegas, New York and Florida in shipments expedited by Latin American carriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Gangsterism | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...Institute of International Education reported a 53 percent increase in number of American students studying abroad in Argentina from 2003-04 to 2004-05, while Brazil showed a 28 percent gain. Both figures far outpaced the eight percent increase in total students studying abroad. These figures, especially those in Latin America, come as no surprise to David Carrasco, a professor who specializes in Latin American studies and holds posts in both the Divinity School and the Department of Anthropology.“Latin America is the great borderland that we live in today, for culture, economics, and music...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Go Abroad to Different Locales | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

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