Word: latinity
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While Fujimori's free-market reforms have made Peru one of the more prosperous Latin American nations, the infringements against his people's civil rights through his efforts to control the country's election processes, media, legislative and judicial systems have made a mockery of Peru's so-called democratic government. Indeed, after he announced his resignation, protestors outside the Presidential Palace chanted "the dictatorship is over...
...next move might be. Lima was awash Monday in rumors of coups and conspiracies, and it?s not hard to see why: New of the planned resignation of a strongman who had defied not only his own countrymen but also his most powerful backers in Washington and the wider Latin American community to steal an election just four months ago came as a bombshell - particularly since the apparent catalyst was the release on national TV of videotape showing Fujimori's shadowy intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, apparently in the act of bribing an opposition legislator into supporting the president. After...
...bolster Latin American ties (two pledges...
...strip (see box) but built them according to Ford's specifications. On Thursday the Venezuelan consumer-protection agency recommended bringing criminal charges against both companies for a cover-up that the agency says has led to 46 deaths. It also asked Firestone to recall all its Wilderness tires in Latin America. The company has so far resisted...
Ford and Firestone attribute incidents in the Middle East and Latin America largely to local driving conditions such as bad roads, hot climates and under- or overinflated tires. Critics see these arguments as disingenuous, if not offensive. According to an internal Ford memo dated Oct. 1, 1999, reviewed by TIME, at least part of the reason some of the Wilderness tires were failing in the gulf region was that the company had decided to use the North American-made tires even though Firestone had warned that they were "not meant" for the rugged terrain. Ford says it knows...