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Feet First. Some might call it pure demagoguery, but Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Diaz, 37, has not earned her reputation as a defender of the poor by sitting around in Colombia's lavish private clubs. Maria Eugenia is the force behind a growing wave of populism. As her political power grows, the nation's Liberal and Conservative parties, which offer little more than Tweedledum and Tweedledee choices, are growing downright panicky...
...Maria Eugenia is the daughter of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 71, the controversial dictator who took office in 1953. He is credited with helping to end the fighting between Liberal and Conservative factions that had claimed 200,000 lives in the bloody violencia, and curbing the power of the elite. His regime, however, is also remembered for unbridled corruption and outrageous strong-arm tactics. Finally, the military sent him scampering into Spanish exile in 1957. Maria Eugenia went into self-exile in the U.S. and gave birth to two sons while living in Miami with her husband, Senator Samuel Moreno Diaz...
...motorcade wound through the dusty town of Maria Elena in Chile's mountainous north, the Cuban Premier spied a gymnasium housing a basketball court. He ordered the caravan to a screeching halt, recruited a government official, three carabineros and five Chil ean newsmen, then sprang onto the court - combat boots, green fatigues and all - for a pickup game...
After 15 minutes of furious play at Maria Elena's lung-stretching...
...choose from among eleven candidates for President, including Pacheco, they will at the same time have to decide whether Pacheco, by being allowed to succeed himself, should be a candidate at all. If the amendment fails, the President has promised to turn over his votes to his alternate, Juan Maria Bordaberry, 43, his Minister of Agriculture...