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...first peaceful constitutional change of government in 25 years should have been a signal event in Bolivian politics. But the way in which the new President was selected cast a pall over last week's inauguration ceremonies for Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 77. Paz Estenssoro had narrowly lost the popular vote in the July 14 election to former President Hugo Banzer Suárez, 58. But because neither candidate drew more than 50% of the vote, the final choice was left to Congress. Although both men proposed similarly conservative programs, leftist legislators saw Paz Estenssoro as the lesser of two evils...
...Paz Estenssoro, who has been elected President three times before, will need all his political skills to defeat an even tougher opponent: Bolivia's ravaged economy. La Paz business groups estimate that the country's annual inflation rate will reach 30,000% this year. One of the new President's first acts was to announce an austerity program that included devaluation of the peso and renegotiation of the country's $4.8 billion foreign debt. ITALY The Mafia's Double Strike...
...teenager back in her native Seville, Paz Vega made up her mind to become famous. Another Spaniard and fellow Andalucian, Antonio Banderas, had made it big in Hollywood, so why couldn't she? "I had always loved theater and cinema," says Vega, 29, over the phone from Miami, where she's promoting her latest film, Spanglish. "So one day I said to myself that I would become an actress...
...Good As It Gets and, in fact, his one film flop, I'll Do Anything. This time he crams a Malibu house with anguished sweeties: superchef John (Adam Sandler); John's two good, frazzled kids; his mother-in-law (Cloris Leachman); and two newcomers, gorgeous Mexican housekeeper Flor (Paz Vega) and her perfect daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce...
...Flor (Paz Vega), an illegal immigrant and overprotective mother, takes a job as maid for the Clasky family to keep an eye on her daughter, Cristina (Shelbie Bruce), at night. The film is structured with voiced-over excerpts from Cristina’s college entrance essay about her mother. The idea seems at first a little cheesy—the narration smacks of the immature musings of an over-achieving high schooler—but Brooks, great scribe that he is, somehow manages to make the words mean something. It actually becomes one of the strengths of the film: when...