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...recognize the rebels as legitimate belligerents, as left-wing Venezuelan President Chavez, a Correa ally, urges the region to do. Correa knows that Uribe, a key U.S. ally, is likely to keep his military's border pressure strong while George W. Bush is still the U.S. President, says Freddy Rivera, a security researcher at FLACSO University in Quito, Ecuador's capital. Ecuador isn't just neighbors with Colombia, Rivera adds. In reality it also shares a border with the FARC, as well as with drug mafias, right-wing Colombian paramilitary armies and all the other dark denizens of a border...
...persistence. But while critics like the U.S may call him disingenuous for arguing that coca and cocaine are apples and oranges - analysts say that despite government efforts, much of the coca grown in Bolivia ends up in drug cartels' hands - he has also helped lead what experts like Rivera call "a revaluation of the coca leaf." "Many people," says the sociologist, "have begun to rediscover its nutritional and medicinal benefits...
...dispute is momentous for millions of people in Bolivia and Peru - where the coca leaf is sacred to indigenous culture and a tonic of modern life - and for anti-drug officials in the U.S. and other countries who are desperate to stem the relentless flow of cocaine. Says Silvia Rivera, a sociology professor at San Andres University in Bolivia's capital, La Paz, "This is the most aggressive attack [Bolivians] have faced" since the U.N. designated coca a drug...
...other favorite nuggets in the book is about "closer fatigue." You write an essay about Mariano Rivera, proving that, yes, the more he has worked on previous days, the less effective he's likely to be. But most notably, you write that he looks like Henry Fonda. Really? I'm not seeing that...
...many of Taring Padi's works survive - they are typically confiscated by police, or simply discarded after demonstrations - but the ones that do are starting to find their way onto the walls of a few hip homes. Inspired by the work of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, German Expressionist Otto Dix and Indonesian masters like Sudjojono, the etchings assault the viewer with their power and passion. Taring Padi "are the unfiltered voice of the people," says John McGlynn, who organizes monthly exhibitions of Indonesian art at his home for a group called JakARTa Kolektors...