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...press interviews and refused until recently to have his face photographed. Catching up to him involved two plane flights, a muddy drive through banana plantations and finally a speedboat ride through a thunderstorm across the Gulf of Uruba to the Darien Gap, the mountainous rain forest separating Colombia from Panama. Castano was waiting on the beach, surrounded by 30 hulking paramilitaries hidden among giant ceiba trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Of The Jungle | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...legislators have questioned the credentials of Marquez, a close ally of Fujimori, and his path to the presidency remains constitutionally murky. First in line would be the first vice president, Francisco Tudela, who resigned last month following Montesinos?s return to Peru from a failed bid for asylum in Panama. But the legislature has not yet accepted Tudela?s resignation. Such discord among civilian politicians is just the sort of thing that gets the military a little edgy, and although its commanders released a statement at the weekend that they would support any constitutional change of power, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Braces for Turmoil | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...Over 100 dead sharks washed up in Panama City, Fla., because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Oct. 30, 2000 | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...Truce between hammerheads and sharpnoseds is over b) Alcohol level in Panama City urine is abnormally high c) Of Pol Pot shark d) No one knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Oct. 30, 2000 | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...stunt. But not in Peru. President Alberto Fujimori on Thursday raced around Lima with an escort of special forces troops, leading a house-to-house search for his disgraced former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos had earlier this week flown home following a failed bid for political asylum in Panama. The release last month of a videotape showing him bribing an opposition legislator to support President Fujimori had precipitated a political crisis that forced the strongman president to call new elections early next year in which he promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Peru's President Comes Knocking, It's Not to Get Out the Vote | 10/26/2000 | See Source »

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