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...21st century chain gang. Saviano says that those who object to low wages or poor working conditions are simply eliminated - and not just by a pink slip. "It's a military system," Saviano tells TIME in Rome as one of the plainclothes cops guarding him stands nearby. "The farm and factory owners employ the Mafia caporali to bring the workers. The immigrants wait on the roads, the caporali pick them up and take them to the work. If they complain, they get killed." (See the top 10 news stories...
...viral aspect of mobile is key," says Tony Aiello, business-development director of Mobile Accord, a Denver company that serves as a financial clearinghouse between cell-phone carriers and dozens of nonprofits ranging from Farm Aid to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. (See where the next five big earthquakes will...
...Poland to Ukranian parents, Ševčenko began translating texts when he was a teenager and eventually mastered French, English, Czech, German, and the Classical languages—in addition to Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian, his native languages. He later published the Ukrainian translation of "Animal Farm...
...inside Ecuador provide evidence that the FARC, having been seriously weakened by Uribe's military drive against them, have increasingly begun to refine cocaine in Ecuador rather than just smuggling it. Ecuadorian police have discovered numerous drug labs near the borders with Colombia and Peru as well as on farms deep inside the South American country, including one just west of the capital, Quito. René Vargas Pazzos, a retired general and former ambassador to Venezuela, rented a farm to a FARC commander, the report says. As a result, Huerta warned that Ecuador faces the same corrosive influence from...
...Vargas has been silent about the rental of the farm. He was replaced as ambassador on Sept. 30. His daughter Alexandra Vargas acknowledged renting the farm but said the alleged FARC commander showed her an Ecuadorian ID card...