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Protesters helped topple President Lucio Gutierrez last week, the third time street rage has booted the national government since 1997. He is trying to leave the country for Brazil, which granted him asylum...
...town of Tesero, was driving up the valley with his daughter. They were saved because the road at that point swung high up the hillside. "I have seen the end of the world," Jellici exclaimed. Other travelers were not so fortunate. Bank Employee Mario Deflorian spoke of his cousin Lucio Deflorian, a carpenter: "He was coming down the road in a truck with his two sons, Umberto, 18, and Clemente, 24. Right away he guessed what was happening. He yelled, 'Get out! Get out!' The two boys escaped by running into the forest. The father was swept away. He disappeared...
...nations - signed a declaration creating the South American Community of Nations, an economic and political bloc that its leaders hope will one day mirror the E.U. Justices Found Wanting ECUADOR A new Supreme Court took office a day after Congress voted to replace 27 of its 31 members. President Lucio Gutiérrez said that the previous Supreme Court was biased toward the Social Christian opposition, which tried to impeach him last month...
...mowing people down - runs a sprawling criminal organization while eluding capture. With the new scraps of knowledge, investigators are better able to "identify with him," as one put it, to track him down. "Capturing him would be an immense blow, striking at his image of invincibility and impregnability," says Lucio Carluccio, commander of Italy's anti-Mob police investigative unit. Michele Prestipino, the Palermo magistrate who oversees the investigative unit set up specifically to hunt Provenzano, says secrecy is the key to the Mob leader's elusiveness. So while the boss has "the entire organization at his disposal...
...sticky-fingered tax officials, Parayno is employing "lifestyle checks" that compare their homes and cars with what they can afford on their government salaries. He is also stepping up efforts against people suspected of evading taxes. Last month, the Supreme Court revived a 1994 case against cigarette magnate Lucio Tan, one of the country's richest men. The government alleges that Tan owes about $460 million in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties. (A spokesman at Tan's Fortune Tobacco didn't return TIME's phone calls seeking comment but his lawyers have consistently denied the charges.) More investigations seem likely...