Word: nacionale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For an officially embargoed "enemy" of the U.S., Cuba seems to be getting pretty popular with American tourists and businessmen. There were 29 Yanks officially registered at the Hotel Nacional when a terrorist bomb went off in the lobby of the hotel July 12. Last year 1,500 executives visited...
At Latin America's largest integrated steel company, it's not the blast furnaces that are shooting off the biggest sparks these days. It's Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, 40, an economist and financial wizard hired in May to restructure Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, formerly an icon of Brazilian state-driven...
"I looked out at the sea," he writes. "Sometimes the place was so beautiful it made you want to cry almost. It was like seeing some young, lovely woman on the arm of a short, sleazy general. The soft breeze off the sea; the intermittent light of cars, winking along...
This week artifacts from the tombs go on display in New York City's American Museum of Natural History, along with a full-size reproduction of the burial site of a ruler called the Warrior Priest, or the Lord of Sipan. The wealth of information gained from the tombs' contents...
For the coup makers, the shock was that their move generated so little support. The military high command stood with the government; and the Venezuelan people showed that despite their unhappiness with the economy, they were not ready to give up on democracy. Still, some Venezuelans were concerned that the...