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...DIED. Alfredo Stroessner, 93, canny and cruel dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 who brought relative stability and economic growth to the South American country-which had seen six Presidents toppled from 1948 to 1954-before being ousted in a 1989 coup and exiled; in Brasília. The macho general, who flashed his name in neon across the country and famously sheltered Nazis including Josef Mengele, solidified and maintained his control by rigging elections, torturing and murdering perceived enemies, and turning his country into a smuggling capital (the "price of peace," he once said). By the 1980s...
...exclusion, corruption and widespread frustration--haven't gone away. Despite the perorations of populists like Chávez and Castro, Latin America's maladies are not made in Washington but are self-inflicted wounds originating in the predatory élites that control policymaking in places like Buenos Aires, Caracas, Brasília and Mexico City. Those are problems for which Washington has never had the skills or the means to influence. On the whole, the U.S. is better off letting Latin Americans figure out how to solve Latin America's problems...
Oscar Niemeyer: Houses (Rizzoli) Alan Hess celebrates the work of the Brazilian architect with Alan Weintraub's photographs of houses designed by Oscar Niemeyer in his home city of Brasília. Some featured are those of Marco Antonio Amaral Rezende, Flavio Marcilio and Sebastião Camargo...
...Lia C. Larson ’05 is an economics concentrator in Adams House. She was associate editorial chair of The Crimson...
...Radcliffe Trust presented the 2005 Harvard College Women’s Leadership Awards to Carla A. Harris ’84 and Lia C. Larson ’05 at a dinner reception last night at the Charles Hotel...