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...worst nightmare." He flatters himself, given that Bolivia is, after Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. But the Bush Administration has reason to be spooked. Morales' win has helped build momentum for a resurgence of leftist and often anti-U.S. candidates around Latin America. At least nine presidential races are slated for the region this year, and leftists could win at least five--including those in the two most populous countries, Brazil and Mexico, as well as in coca producers like Peru and Ecuador. Leftists have toppled conservative governments in Uruguay and Honduras, and socialist Michelle Bachelet...
...pictured does not bear Arabic script but is in Hebrew. Could you explain why? Michaela Mills Jerusalem Fourteenth century Spain was populated by Muslims, Christians and Jews, who exchanged cultural and scientific knowledge. The astrolabe was an Arab invention, but the devices are inscribed in many different languages - Arabic, Latin, Greek, Hebrew - depending on the craftsman or intended owner. The one we showed just happens to be inscribed in Hebrew...
...believe there have been some problems with the two buildings, but in my experience they have been relatively minor,” John H. Coatsworth, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and an inhabitant of a second-floor office, said. “The most significant...problem I have observed is that some of the offices become too cold on cold days...
...plant from which cocaine is derived, reversing decades of U.S. efforts to eradicate the crop in Bolivia. And he also hopes to nationalize the tens of trillions of cubic feet of recently discovered natural gas in Bolivia coveted by U.S. energy companies. A Morales victory may also quicken Latin America's leftward drift - left-leaning candidates are favored to win at least five of the nine presidential elections scheduled for 2006 in Latin America...
...Voter attitudes south of the Rio Grande show mounting popular rejection of the free-market reforms and trade agreements long promoted by Washington, but which are seen by Latin Americans as widening the region's epic gap between rich and poor. But in Bolivia, the vote also threatens to tear the country apart. If no candidate wins more than 50% at the polls, a president must be chosen by Congress, where Morales's Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) will likely have less clout than the parties of his more conservative rivals such as Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, a former President...