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...great diversity of peoples who worked on the Canal: "Although most [non white-American] employees came from the Caribbean, many traveled to the Canal Zone from southern Europe, from India and from other parts of Latin America. The 1912 census included as employees of the [Isthmian Canal Commission] or the Panama Railroad one thousand Panamanians, eight hundred Italians, thirteen hundred Greeks, thirty-five hundred Spaniards, and smaller numbers of East Indians, Portuguese, Ecuadorians, Peruvians, Venezuelans, Colombians, Mexicans, Hondurans, Costa Ricans and Nicaraguans...
...Cheap Latin Flair. Lan Airlines, a Oneworld partner, is offering low fares to South America. If you've always wanted to climb to Machu Picchu, you can now fly to Peru from Miami for as little as $298 round-trip. For a more urbane getaway, fly from Los Angeles to Chile ($749 round-trip) to sample some Malbec vintages, or head to Argentina from New York City ($599 round-trip) to perfect your tango. Purchase tickets before Feb. 28 for travel before June...
...marches by hooded demonstrators outside the homes of Jewish citizens and calls for the boycotting of Jewish stores in some provincial cities, in response to the incidents in Gaza, have set off alarm bells ringing in the Jewish community here, which at 300,000 is the largest in Latin America. "It's very worrying," says Aida Ender, who migrated with her parents from Europe escaping from the Holocaust 60 years ago and who is part of an e-mail chain that reports on anti-Semitic activity among other survivors. "In the smaller cities of the provinces they are painting swastikas...
...papers, Williamson appears only as an employee for the tree-lined La Reja seminary outside the city of Buenos Aires, when he actually presided over the religious institution. At the ultra-orthodox seminary, run by the Society of St. Pius X, mass is said in Latin with the priest facing the altar and turning his back to the congregation. At services, women must wear long skirts and a shawl over their heads. (Read "Finding God on YouTube...
...will not find integrity in positive change for their own nations unless they are ready to advocate that change for all others. As President Bachelet writes her legacy, this chapter will be one that sacrifices the dignity of her diplomacy and ironically makes her a challenge to democracy in Latin America...