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...payments on its $3.5 billion debt last May. The Sandinista government in Nicaragua is using at least 40% of its budget to fight its civil war and thus has no way to meet payments on its loans of $4.7 billion. Peru, which was rocked earlier this year by a violent three-week strike staged by 400,000 government workers, is $300 million behind in paying interest on its $13.5 billion debt...
...brief period of relative calm in June, violence is again on the rise in the black residential areas, with outbursts being reported every day. Last week 13 blacks were killed in the Johannesburg area alone, both by police and by other blacks. In one 24-hour period, 23 violent incidents were reported. Throughout the racially divided country there were fire bombings and grenade attacks in black townships almost every night...
...Violent urban legend has always swirled around Mexican drug traffickers, but few of them have ever set out to build a reputation as vicious as that of Heriberto Lazcano, 28. As leader of the Zetas, a new and ruthless drug gang situated along the U.S. border, Lazcano has perpetrated crimes that range from the brutal to the bizarre. In one instance last summer, Mexican officials say, Lazcano murdered a prominent Tijuana publisher in his car in broad daylight as his two young children watched horrified from the backseat. In January the Zetas attempted a raid on a federal prison...
...than aggressive manner, and the Vatican sense of urgency regarding Islam's various faces, although as keen as the rest of the world's, remains papally undefined. "It's the 800-lb. gorilla sitting in the room," says a well-placed Vatican source. "It's huge and expanding, has violent elements, so what will be the church's modus operandi confronting this dynamic...
...second story stars Mickey Rourke as the violent-yet-noble thug Marv. When a beautiful woman (Jamie Pressly) takes him to bed and is murdered during the night, he goes on a rampage to punish those responsible. Marv sadistically tortures and murders at least a half-dozen people to get to Rutger Hauer, the Catholic Cardinal Roark. Marv’s other victims include Elijah Wood, playing a creepily mute cannibal, and Sin City’s creator Frank Miller in a cameo as a priest...