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...sleepy as they were preordained, the product of 71 years of one-party rule that ended in 2000. But when Mexicans go to the polls on July 2, few will gripe that this campaign has been too quiet. The front runner, former Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, has turned his rallies into carnival-style events, with supporters tossing marigold garlands around his neck and hoisting cages with squawking chachalaca birds that wear his opponents' names. To a raucous throng last week in Puebla, south of Mexico City, López pledged...
...military-run training ground for Latin American strongmen and dictators was for years known as the School of the Americas (SOA). The Spanish-language army facility based in Fort Benning, Georgia, was responsible for helping to educate such military men as Panamanian dictator and convicted drug trafficker Manuel Noriega, the late Argentine junta leader imprisoned for human rights abuses Leopoldo Galtieri, and Salvadoran right-wing militia leader Maj. Roberto D'Aubuisson. Despite adding a "human rights" element to its curriculum in recent years, the school has engendered so much suspicion and hostility that it was dubbed the School of Assassins...
...always growing," he says. "I don't see it collapsing all at once; this isn't Latin America or East Asia in the late 1990s. But in Spain we still don't have the capacity of France or Germany to absorb problems and still guarantee services to our people." Manuel Prados, president of adicae, an association of financial-services consumers, says 40% of Spanish households have trouble getting to the end of the month. And even some who don't have trouble found themselves vulnerable with the launch of an investigation last month into two large firms that solicited billions...
...contrary made an effort to answer all questions, including some of a very personal nature. Still I consider the article essentially accurate in its description of Opus Dei and of the criticism that it receives. It was an honor to cooperate with TIME in the story's preparation. Juan Manuel Mora Communications Director Opus Dei Rome...
...adjective secret that would prevent them from understanding Opus Dei. Still I consider the article essentially accurate in its description of Opus Dei and of the criticism that it receives. It was an honor to cooperate with Time in the story's preparation. Juan Manuel Mora Communications Director Opus Dei Rome Opus Dei seems to be a great force for good rather than the obscure society some have tried to portray it as. Maybe if more of us listened to Christ's truthful message, we wouldn't be surprised by people who try to live by it. At a minimum...