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...fact that no modernization, no technology and no industry has ever arrived in Nicaragua is now a great advantage for the country," says Cirilo Otero, head of the Center for Research on Environmental Policy. With rich volcanic soils, some 443,000 hectares of fallow farm land waiting to be put back to work, and a long agricultural tradition of growing basic food products, Nicaragua "has the best conditions in Central America" to become a regional breadbasket, Otero says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua's Great Leap Forward | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...Sandinista revolution in the 1980s diversified the quotas of power in the country," said sociologist Cirilo Otero. "There was a displacement of the oligarchy; a lot of investment left the country, and what is left is the remnants of a class whose influence and power are almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Goes the Neighborhood | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

Although it has long been the domain of male fighters, Vale Tudo is increasingly attracting young women with a background in martial arts from all over the world. "Brazilian women are the best in the world today," said Daniel Otero, who is 24 and one of the world's foremost Vale Tudo fighters. Otero and others involved with the sport here believe that both Brazilian men and women have an advantage because they are often experts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the art of grappling on the ground developed by world-renowned fighter Helio Gracie, and popularized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Ultimate Fighter Is a Woman | 6/12/2007 | See Source »

When the ensuing siege was over more than 24 hours later, some 100 people had been killed. Among them were Chief Justice Alfonso Reyes Echandia and ten other judges, almost half of the country's Supreme Court. All of the guerrillas, including their leader, Luis Otero, perished. The block-long Palace of Justice was a smoldering ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Mindless Violence in Bogota | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...building with cannon and machine-gun fire. Inside, the guerrillas held frantic telephone talks in an attempt to demand publicity for their antigovernment views on TV and in newspapers. "We want the people of Colombia to know that the army has never given us a chance," said Otero. "All they've given us is hot lead." At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the voice of Chief Justice Reyes was heard pleading, "For God's sake stop shooting, otherwise there will be a holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Mindless Violence in Bogota | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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