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...many Brazilians had no sympathy for the victims. "Everyone is making them out to be heroes," says taxi driver Joao Mendes, "but they were not sweet flowers." Citizens calling in to local talk shows applauded the massacre. Says Alexandre Coelho Reis, 23, who works in Rio: "Many of these 13-year-old kids have killed. They deserve...
Paraguay has elected Juan Carlos Wasmosy its first civilian President since 1954. Although the election was marred by irregularities, observers said the outcome was unaffected. Said Secretary-General Joao Baena Soares of the Organization of American States: "We all know you don't get instant democracy. It's not like coffee...
...MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM IN THE AMAZON FOREST, Joao Caetano Theater, Rio, May 15 to Dec. 15 In this elaborate production directed by German filmmaker Werner Herzog, Puck is transported to the contemporary Brazilian rain forest. The play opens with a Herzog film documentary on the ecological devastation of Kuwait...
...another incident last September, Antonio Batista de Macedo, who has been organizing Indians and rural workers into cooperatives and trade unions in western Acre, escaped death only when an assassin's gun failed to fire. Last December, Joao Bosco dos Santos Freire, who had been mobilizing rubber tappers in Tarauaca, Acre, was ambushed and killed, allegedly by the son of a landowner, who has not been charged. In January the president of the Tarauaca rural workers union was almost killed when two gunmen invaded his home...
...explain the seriousness of the OAS decisions to the army leaders, a nine- member delegation headed by Secretary-General Joao Baena Soares of Brazil was dispatched to Port-au-Prince at week's end. If the junta does not back down, the organization has resolved to call another emergency meeting to plan further turns of the screw...