Word: rio
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...Figueiredo's military backers, an even more alarming outcome loomed in the major southeastern state of Rio de Janeiro. There, a front runner in the gubernatorial race was Leonel Brizola, 62, a charismatic populist and onetime left-wing orator who was governor of Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul at the time of the 1964 military coup. Brizola, who used to extol the virtues of Fidel Castro, has been cited by military men as one of the reasons that they seized power in the first place. At week's end Brizola was leading...
Although a round-trip airline ticket between New York and Rio de Janeiro still costs a hefty $1,400, tourists in Brazil can get good deals on semiprecious stones such as amethysts, tourmalines, topazes and aquamarines, which cost about 30% less than in the U.S. Neighboring Argentina, formerly one of the two or three most expensive countries in the world, is merely medium-priced today. A weeklong excursion for two from Buenos Aires to Peninsula Valdes, 840 miles away, to view whales and penguins can be bought for just $340, including air fare, hotel room and two meals...
Mexico's economic crisis is not just a matter of concern for big-city bankers. It has also hit Maria Luisa de Lopez, the mother of seven children, who has illegally crossed the Rio Grande in search of a day's work as a maid in El Paso. Said she: "Potatoes, beans and chili peppers-that's all we can afford to eat. There's no meat, eggs or milk for us. I'm giving my children only one meal...
Women, children and grandparents are caught regularly, but most of the immigrants are young men of working age. Jack Richardson, chief patrol agent of the Del Rio, Texas, sector on the border, recently polled 364 arrested aliens and found that 67% were under...
Droughts at this time of year have dried the Rio Grande to a trickle at many points and turned the riverbed into a soggy avenue of escape. Illegal aliens, who are disparagingly called wetbacks because they have to swim across the river, can now cross at El Paso by wading through knee-deep water. Once on the other side, they dash into town and quickly melt into the general population. In other places the immigrants must still swim, row boats or paddle across the river in rubber inner tubes. Their greatest worry is always the border agents patrolling in vans...