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...Lula should have plenty of support for his strategy, since surveys show most Latin Americans have soured on closer trade ties with the U.S. Latin poverty has worsened amid capitalist reforms - a big reason why Bolivians last month forced free- marketeer President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada to resign. In Peru, the polling firm APOYO has found that only around one-third of voters agreed with their government's decision to take Peru out of the G-22. Lula and Brazil have harnessed decades of pent-up frustration with hefty U.S. tariffs. For example, Brazil and the U.S. together...
They were the kind of ugly street scenes that few presidencies survive. All last week, thousands of poverty-stricken Bolivians protested in the capital, La Paz, and around the country, railing at President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. Sánchez - or Goni, as he is called - sent the army to restore order. As Bolivian soldiers fired on demonstrators, impoverished Indian mine workers used crude slingshots to hurl lighted sticks of dynamite back at them. But they were no match for the army's tear gas and bullets, and the clashes left as many as 80 people dead...
...Mesa is eligible to finish Sánchez's term, which ends in 2007. But Mesa, 50, said he wished to stay on only until a referendum has been held on the natural-gas issue and a special national assembly addresses Bolivia's socioeconomic crisis, to "peacefully resolve our ancient hatreds." He gave no timetable, but told Congress that it should hold a special presidential election afterward. For now, the front-runner in any election would be Morales, 43, who also leads the Movement to Socialism Party. Should he win, it would be one more piece of evidence that Latin...
...distance for a medal next year." The Paris contest is likely to be dominated by a flock of athletes who seem near unbeatable. Maria Mutola of Mozambique is undefeated this year at 800 m. Mexican 400-m runner Ana Guevara hasn't lost since August 2001. Felix Sánchez of the Dominican Republic has won his last 22 races in the 400-m hurdles. And Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, the three-time defending champion at 1,500 m, feels so good at that distance, he says, that "my goals are to win the 1,500 m and take...
...past two decades bringing Latin American literature north to the U.S. The authors he has translated constitute a pantheon of Hispanic letters: Garcia Márquez (Colombia), Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), José Lezama Lima (Cuba), Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico), Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil...