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Although the Rodriguez-Pastor family controls 70% of the shares--the rest are publicly traded--it differs from many family-controlled firms in South America in one way: "You don't have to be a family member to make it," he says. The family name isn't part of the company name for that reason...
...Mullen's 25-year-old son Michael was killed by friendly fire when a U.S. artillery shell struck near the South Vietnamese village of Tu Chanh. His mother, brokenhearted, did what any other mother would--or should--do when her child is killed in an illegal and immoral war: she went on a search for the truth. Mullen, an Iowa homemaker who died on Oct. 2 at 92, spent more than two decades probing her son's death. In 1995 she published her findings in a book called Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir, which painted a scathing portrait...
...later years, Sosa went beyond her role as a musician to serve as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. But the South American troubadour (below, with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) never thought of herself as an activist. "All of us," she once said, "whether we are artists or military, must collaborate if we are to keep democracy on its feet and walking...
Rodriguez-Pastor initially followed the path of South America's educated élite and worked in New York City, at Citibank and on Wall Street. After his father died in 1995, he went home to Interbank...
...Silva told the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as it gathered in Copenhagen to select a site for the 2016 Summer Olympics. "It is Brazil's time." The IOC agreed. On Oct. 2, Rio de Janeiro beat out First World metropolises Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago to become the first South American city to host the Games--sparking a deafening celebration on Copacabana Beach to rival the city's annual Carnaval bacchanal...