Word: salazar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tousle-haired Sachs hardly looks like someone who would make a practice of unleashing economic revolutions. Son of a Detroit labor lawyer, he was a full professor at Harvard at 29. Competition is the core of the Sachs credo. Countries as diverse as Argentina under the generals, Portugal under Salazar and the Soviet Union under Brezhnev, he argues, condemned themselves to stagnation by opting out of the competitive international economy...
Shannon first covered the drug problem in 1968 as a cub reporter for the Nashville Tennessean. She worked for several publications before coming to TIME in 1987, and has written a book about Enrique Camarena Salazar, the U.S. DEA agent kidnapped and murdered by Mexican drug traffickers and corrupt officials. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win was a best seller in paperback earlier this year. The book was turned into the NBC mini-series Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, which won an Emmy as the best mini-series...
...very difficult to expect officers without the insurance, backing or protection of the government to investigate political violence or security force violence," Salazar said...
Although the project claimed a number of successes, the political climate made it nearly impossible for judges and prosecutors to operate effectively, said Ana Maria Salazar, who directed the Guatemala office of the program from January to its close in September...
...Salazar said because the Guatemalan justice system relies on written statements, rather than oral testimony, it gives individuals almost no power to plead their cases. In addition, she said that public confidence in the system is so low that many people will not report crimes of authorities...