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...business trips but also as a base of operations that offers a security they can't find in their own countries. (Even Miami's violent-crime rate pales by comparison with the kidnappings, terrorism and guerrilla warfare that many Latins face in cities like Rio de Janeiro, Medellin or Lima.) "Venezuelans, Brazilians and increasing numbers of Argentines are investing in Miami, developing hotels and purchasing malls," says Suquet. "They are setting up businesses here, buying homes in Coral Gables or Cocoplum, sending their kids to Gulliver Academy or Belen Jesuit Preparatory School...
...Orlando Lima, the Radio Shack store manager,said the VCR was worth $300. He said two similarincidents had occurred within a one-week periodabout a year and a half ago, but nothing like thishas happened since...
...Lima said the smashed window was repairedTuesday around 3 p.m. The hole had been coveredwith plywood before then, Lima said...
...navy base on the mainland. Fujimori staged the media event to draw attention to the successes of his war on terrorism and to justify his "government of emergency" declared a year ago. The boasting did not go unanswered. In a violent response, Shining Path guerrillas set off bombs in Lima and ambushed a patrol in the countryside, killing seven police, three soldiers and a civilian...
...culture interacts with other generations, with another culture, and also about the inner life of the writers. My only fear is that writers delegate themselves to this corner bodega. To escape the provincialism of roots and be expansive in the manner of a wonderful writer like [Jose] Lezama Lima, or [Jorge Luis] Borges or, for that matter, someone like Rudyard Kipling. And if I can find a readership in that way, then I think it will take the shackles of being politically and sociologically correct off of writers that may want to do different things, but don't because they...