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...more than two years American bankers have been concerned that a Latin American nation would default on its loans. Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, president of First Boston International and former Minister of Energy and Mines in Peru, has warned, "One of the smaller Latin American countries defaulting could set off a chain reaction." Last week Bolivia, though a mere mouse of a debtor by international standards, looked as if it could be the mouse that roared. The economically ailing country said that it will temporarily suspend repayment of its $3.4 billion in foreign loans, including some $680 million owed to Western...
When it finally came, Alvarez's downfall was both quick and ignominious. The day before his ouster, the Defense Minister traveled to a meeting of conservative civilian supporters in the Honduran industrial center of San Pedro Sula. After a party that lasted until 2 a.m., Alvarez arrived groggy and Unshaven at the local military airport for his return to Tegucigalpa. When Alvarez stepped inside a private airport office, he was informed that he was under arrest. He was then handcuffed and hustled aboard an airplane for the 90-minute flight to Costa Rica. On Friday, Alvarez surfaced in Miami...
...onetime neofascist student leader, Firmenich, 36, virtually inaugurated the brutal period of terror and counterterror that became known as Argentina's "dirty war." In 1970 he and a small group of colleagues won instant fame by kidnaping and murdering a former Argentine provisional President, Army General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. The justification: "anti-imperialism." Eventually, Firmenich declared an underground guerrilla war against the incompetent regime of then President María Estela Martinez de Perón, better known as "Isabelita...
...that PDID agents not only infiltrated law-abiding groups but often acted as provocateurs. They say, for example, that an undercover officer who joined the Coalition Against Police Abuse tried without success to get members to throw a brick through a police-station window during a demonstration in San Pedro. Observes Linda Valentino, who in 1977 helped organize the Citizens' Commission on Police Repression: "After these things started coming out, people were afraid to get involved. The police hurt a lot of groups...
...epidemic has turned Brazilian banks into virtual shooting galleries. Dozens of innocent bystanders have been killed in the gunplay. Authorities say that in one notorious incident, Franklin Pedro da Silva was holding up a Sāo Paulo bank when he was distracted by a crying baby. "Shut it up or I'll kill it!" he reportedly shouted, then summarily executed the eight-month-old infant and its mother with a pistol...