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...President has cultivated this grass-roots support through a series of televised town-hall meetings. On Saturday, he took his road show to a high school gymnasium in Pereira, a city in the heart of Colombia's coffee belt. Rolling up his sleeves and reveling in the minutiae of crop prices and road-paving projects, Uribe seemed more like an alderman. He cracked jokes, fielded requests for new ambulances and even got into a debate over the best spot to build a small sugar mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia's Uribe: Keeping Up with Hugo Chávez | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...Guinea-Bissau Assassination Tit for Tat João Bernardo Vieira, the longtime President of this volatile West African nation, was assassinated by army troops on March 2 in apparent retaliation for the killing of a general hours before. The speaker of parliament, Raimundo Pereira, was sworn in as the state's interim President and is required to call elections within 60 days. Since winning independence from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has been racked by poverty and upheaval, becoming in recent years a key transit point for cartels smuggling drugs from South America to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...nail on the head." Maggi says the biofuel boom is making him richer, but it's also making it harder to feed children and save trees. "There are many mouths to feed, and nobody's invented a chip to create protein without growing crops," says his pal Homero Pereira, a congressman who is also the head of Mato Grosso's farm bureau. "If you don't want us to tear down the forest, you better pay us to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clean Energy Scam | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...14th in the world in the event. After finishing second in his semifinal heat, Rathgeber swam neck-and-neck with American teammate Robert Margalis—one of the top swimmers in the world—in the finals, but Margalis ultimately pulled away to finish second behind Thiago Pereira of Brazil. Pereira set pool and event records by clocking in at 1:57.79, while Rathgeber finished...

Author: By Julie R.S. Fogarty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rathgeber Takes Fifth at Pan Am Competition | 7/30/2007 | See Source »

...manage to keep your private life private? I don't read as much about you in magazines compared to the rest of the celebrities, or is it that I read the wrong magazines? Chantele Pereira, DUBAI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Hilary Swank | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

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