Word: latins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sarney fell far short of his goal. Just days before Our Nature was announced, a group of 28 Latin American intellectuals, none of them Brazilian, issued a stinging open letter to Sarney accusing him of a "policy of ecocide and ethnocide" in the Amazon. The statement called for an immediate halt to "massive deforestation" and other "acts of barbarism." Among the signers were three prominent novelists: Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico and Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru...
...their editorial, the doctors warned, "If HIV-1 infection continues to penetrate the poor and less advantaged populations of Latin America and the Caribbean, there is the potential for a massive epidemic in the Americas that may parallel the situation in Africa, where many cases remain unrecognized and unreported...
Quinn noted that the epidemic in most Latin and Caribbean nations is far behind Africa's, but there are troubling signs that it will follow a similar course...
Quinn said poverty levels and a high frequency of prostitution in some Latin and Caribbean countries may also contribute to the transmission of AIDS as a heterosexual disease...
Quinn said the relatively large numbers of bisexual men in some Latin countries appears to be hastening the spread of the disease from homosexuals to heterosexuals. One of these is Brazil, where Ho's study found that 28 percent of bisexual men and 23 percent of homosexual men were infected with the AIDS virus...