Word: rio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wide-ranging look at the insidious traffic began last October, when Los Angeles-based Correspondent Jonathan Beaty undertook to find out how the trade had changed in recent years. Beaty visited Central and South America, where he had, as he puts it, "whispered interviews with cocaine traffickers in Rio nightclubs, a clandestine meeting with one of Panama's most influential smugglers, and spirited political discussions with coca plantation owners in Bolivia." But given the sheer size, profitability and economic importance of the dope trade, Beaty says, "it wasn't surprising that some of my most secret meetings were held...
...cover story, written by Staff Writer Pico Iyer, drew on materials provided by Reporter-Researcher Edward Gomez and on reports on the drug trade from twelve Latin American and Caribbean countries. Coordinating much of this coverage was Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who is responsible for TIME's reporting in most of South America. His own travels took him to, among other places, Bolivia's two-mile-high capital of La Paz. There he interviewed Deputy Minister of the Interior Gustavo Sanchez, the country's top law- enforcement official, who has earned the enmity of cocaine racketeers...
...were caught in the act of carrying cocaine to the U.S. Shipments of illegally imported processing chemicals have also been intercepted with increasing frequency. Most of all, coke preprocessing plants have begun sprouting up in the Brazilian backcountry. By now, says Dr. Juarez Tavares, the federal criminal prosecutor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has become "the distribution center for cocaine leaving South America...
...influence of liberation theology is strongest in Brazil, the world's largest and most populous (131 million) Roman Catholic country. Nonetheless, the debate over the propriety of that support continues to rage within the Brazilian hierarchy. Eugenio Cardinal de Araujo Sales, the conservative Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, charges that liberation theology "constitutes one of the gravest risks to the unity of the pastors and the faithful...
...typical base community in the town of Campos Eliseos, 14 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, 30 local residents meet every Friday night in a cinder- ^ block home to read the Bible and discuss their problems. Antonio Joinhas, 44, a railroad signalman, relates how one study session inspired a local public health center. "After reading how one biblical community helped another to overcome a problem, we decided we could work together too. We all supplied the manpower and raised money for materials from the community. Now we've got a health center, and it came from the Bible...