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...that some of them--including Brazil's Helio Oiticica (1937-1980) and Lygia Clark (1920-1988), Venezuela's Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912-1994, a sculptor who worked under the name of Gego) and Carlos Cruz-Diez, 78, and of course that long-dead Uruguayan father figure of South American abstraction, Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949)--emphatically ought...
...Arellanos realized their audacious goal: to own the coveted stretch of desert from Tijuana to Mexicali. During a 1992 summit of Mexican druglords at a Sinaloa ranch, they raised the fees charged to others for using their turf. In response, rival druglord Joaquin (Chapo) Guzman sent gunmen to kill the Arellanos at a Puerto Vallarta disco. As bullets rained, the brothers escaped through a bathroom skylight (after struggling to shove Ramon through it). To retaliate, they targeted Chapo the following year at the Guadalajara airport--and mistakenly killed Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, who arrived in a car similar...
Gains in Latin American fruit, flowers and other agricultural exports are supposed to help offset losses in other areas, and North America's normally pro-trade farmers are worried. Says Shawn Stevenson, a citrus and pistachio farmer in California's San Joaquin Valley: "It's hard to compete against folks who don't have the regulatory burden we do, or a minimum wage, or high fuel prices." Brazilian producers of frozen, concentrated orange juice are thirstily eyeing the U.S. market, in which they once enjoyed a 45% share. That was before the U.S. industry got Washington to impose whopping...
...Client Group. (A reading of 0 means that two markets are as likely to go in opposite directions as they are to go in the same direction; 1 means that two markets always go the same way.) Kirt Butler, professor of finance at Michigan State University, and Domingo Castelo Joaquin, professor of finance at Illinois State University, found in a study that correlations go even higher in down markets. Think of the 1987 stock-market crash. No major market escaped the damage...
ITALY Vatican Inquiry The Vatican launched an inquiry into the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and other clergy in Africa and elsewhere. Spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls acknowledged the allegations, made in the U.S. National Catholic Reporter, but said the problem was a limited one. The article contained signed statements from nuns in 23 countries claiming priests and missionaries forced them into sex, in some cases demanding they take the contraceptive pill or have abortions...