Word: paraguay
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...Martin is a haunted man. What's put him on the couch of Alan Arkin's understandably nervous psychiatrist is lack of job satisfaction--killing the President of Paraguay with a fork just isn't the kick it might once have been--and the fact that he still pines for his high school sweetheart, whom he stood up without explanation on their long-ago prom night. Since she is played by the divine Minnie Driver--now working as a disk jockey but still smitten, it turns out, and still warily available--his feelings are understandable...
...journalist, I am disturbed by the report's sensationalist tone. As an adoptive parent, I am outraged by its categorical depiction of orphanages as "death camps." Far smaller political squalls recently caused the suspension of foreign adoptions in Paraguay and Ukraine. If China follows suit, some children will lose what at the moment is their best hope for a future...
...more hopeful sign, two new democracies that Freedom House ranked as "partly free" -- Russia and Paraguay -- both voted to accredit the group, with their delegates arguing that to be a democracy means tolerating differences of opinion...
Alfredo Stroessner, the dean of western despots after 34 years of iron rule in Paraguay, was ousted in 1989 after a military coup. He fled to Brazil, where he lives in a well-guarded mansion in Brasilia. Stroessner is said to enjoy fishing and traveling around the country visiting his former military buddies. He is also known to be an ardent fan of Xuxa (pronounced Shoo-shah), Brazil's Barbie-esque kiddie-show hostess...
...Federal Aviation Administration has forbidden airline companies from nine countries to fly into or out of the U.S., because the FAA says they do not maintain internationally recognized aviation safety standards. The neglectful nine: Belize, the Dominican Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Zaire. In addition, airlines from Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Netherlands Antilles are on the FAA's watch list. The crackdown on foreign air carriers is a result of the 1990 crash in New York of a Columbian Avianca airliner that had run out of fuel...