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...border patrol, which is run by the Department of Homeland Security, refuses to break down OTMs by country. But local law officers, ranchers and others who confront the issue daily tell TIME they have encountered not only a wide variety of Latin Americans (from Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela) but also intruders from Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Russia and China as well as Egypt, Iran and Iraq. Law-enforcement authorities believe the mass movement of illegals, wherever they are from, offers the perfect cover for terrorists seeking to enter the U.S., especially since tighter controls have been imposed at airports...
...gringo migration grows, so do real estate prices. Ocean-view lots and houses in Costa Rica start at $200,000 today and range up to seven figures, says Edgar Santamar�a, regional director for Century 21. So retirees in Costa Rica are moving to Guatemala and Nicaragua, the latest frontier, where similar plots cost a tenth of that. But home building can move at a tropical pace: 18 months after Sadlier and Budinger bought their house, and a year after they were supposed to have moved in, they're still waiting for the builders to wrap. "Ma�ana might mean...
...many things: at once personal and autobiographical. He says, “I often make films about things that are bothering me. I use film to see more clearly what I can’t see very well.” He describes shooting in places such as Nicaragua and Ethiopia, and how he combined the images from those locations with the story of how he and his wife attempted to have children and finally adopted a child. He says simply of this project, “It helped organize a period in which I was confused about my place...
...avoid a runoff. (Three years ago, a constitutional amendment gave ex-presidents the right to run for office again.) While he was president, Arias was never an unconditional U.S. ally. He was a very loud critic of Ronald Reagan's financing of the Contra guerrillas in neighboring Nicaragua. He has also recently criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq. However, Arias does support the Washington-inspired Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Arias's closest rival is Otton Solis, who openly opposes CAFTA. Solis trails substantially in the polls, with only 19% support, but hopes to make a match...
Their concerts are as revivifying as anything in rock, with a strong undertow of something not often found this side of Bruce Springsteen: moral passion. U2's songs speak equally to the Selma of two decades ago and the Nicaragua of tomorrow. They are about spiritual search, and conscience and commitment, and it follows that some of the band's most memorable performances -- and, not incidentally, the ones that have helped U2 break through to an even wider audience -- have been in the service of a good cause, at Live Aid or during last summer's tour for Amnesty International...