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...survival." In the city, thousands of additional demonstrators danced and prayed on the Zocalo, the central square; still others hung a sign reading FIVE CENTURIES OF MASSACRE around the neck of a statue of Columbus on the elegant main avenue, Paseo de la Reforma. Mass demonstrations also occurred in Bolivia and Chile. In Buenos Aires some native people staged a three-day hunger strike that ended on Columbus Day in front of the Casa Rosada, the Argentine presidential palace. And in Managua, Nicaragua, a poster branded Columbus A BIG THIEF, MURDERER, RACIST, TORTURER, OPPRESSOR OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND INSTIGATOR...
Even without J.F.K., there are enough famous bodies to keep Starrs and others shoveling indefinitely. Clyde Snow, a forensic anthropologist who helped identify the remains of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, recently uncovered a pair of bodies in Bolivia. He and his team hope to prove they are the remains of none other than American outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...
...border between Brazil and Bolivia is a rare place where people profit from nature without destroying it. Called the Pantanal, it is a giant freshwater wetland that covers 140,000 sq km (54,000 sq. mi.). Unlike Brazil's other three great ecosystems -- the Atlantic forests, the Amazon and the plain called the Cerrado -- the Pantanal has not yet suffered grievous damage at the hand of man. Even more amazing, it retains some of the densest concentrations of wildlife in the Americas, despite the fact that settlers have worked cattle ranches in the area for more than 200 years...
...exchange for reduced sentences, cash settlements and other favors. And although President Bush hailed last week's verdict as "a major victory against the drug lords," Noriega's conviction is likely to have little lasting effect on the overall war against the traffickers: cocaine producers in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, like the heroin processors in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, will no doubt continue to ply their lucrative trade...
...have diametrically opposed views of how to cure the Russian economy. While the economist draws on his experience in Bolivia and Poland to urge radical reforms, the dentist draws on his work on New York City welfare programs to say the Russians must go slow...