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...Queen will cruise from La Paz to San Diego aboard her yacht. H.M.Y. Britannia is nothing less than a floating palace. At 412 ft. long, it is half the length of the QE2. It has the chintz-covered drawing room of a grand country house, a swimming pool, ballroom, chapel, theater and elegantly appointed bedroom suites-the Queen's with rosebud curtains, the Prince's in a more austere navy style. This ship is not for the frugal: it burns a ton of oil every seven miles. The ship's 26 officers and 254 crewmen all give...
...officer, appreciated for his contacts abroad, made friends in high places. As unofficial leader of a fairly large collection of exiled German war criminals hiding in Bolivia, Barbie was able to organize his cronies into a sophisticated paramilitary back-up unit for General Banzar, who took power in La Paz in 1971. Banzar, for his part, kept the French legal authorities at bay through his hand-picked Supreme Court. Barbie and friends could frequently be seen enjoying themselves at the Taverne Bavaria in Santa Cruz, where hundreds of ex-Nazis gathered for reunions, took their uniforms out of mothballs, sang...
What Barbie never counted on was a shift of power away from the old-style right-wing dictatorships. On October 10, 1982, Hernan Siles Zuazo, leader of a left-wing coalition, ascended to the Presidency. Barbie's Bolivian days were numbered as soon as the new government in La Paz demonstrated its intention to make amends for the past and clean up Bolivia's image as a Nazi haven. And Barbie blundered: following the death of his wife from cancer and the loss of his son in a plane crash the year before, the once nimble war criminal decided...
Bravo for the refreshing article by Octavio Paz. It was time something was said about the problems existing in Mexico because of American foreign policy...
...Octavio Paz, 68, is one of Mexico's most distinguished avant-garde writers, critics and poets. He is best known for The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), a classic work that has explained Mexico to foreigners, and to many Mexicans, for more than a generation. In the following piece for TIME, Paz assesses Mexico's complex, often tortured relationship with its overpowering northern neighbor...