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Sammells spent her summer in La Paz, Bolivia, where she researched middle-class attitudes towards eating llama meat...
...economic promise of NAFTA, Mexico has embarked on a series of environmental reforms and policy initiatives. One percent of its GNP is now devoted to expenditures for environmental protection. Mexico is working on expanding the extant institutional framework and expanding the legislative regulatory framework, beyond 1983's La Paz Agreement for border improvement and 1990's Draft Integrated Border Plan, for more substantive agreements...
...most of the past 131 years. Revolutionary heroes severed all ties to the Vatican as punishment for Catholic support of the landed elite and European intervention. Last week Mexican and church officials finally re-established diplomatic relations. "It is the end of an archaic debate," Nobel-prizewinning poet Octavio Paz told the local press. "We have problems too immense to be wasting our time with problems that are a hangover from the last century...
...Nothing worked." The avenue of adoption seemed blocked: Fred, 53, was considered too old for fatherhood by U.S. adoption agencies. Then the Redmans discovered Los Ninos International Adoption Center, a Houston-based, nonprofit organization that helps Americans adopt youngsters in Latin America. Within months the Redmans arrived in La Paz, Bolivia, where they were introduced to baby twin sisters and their Indian mother, who was offering the infants for adoption because she was too poor to take good care of them. A few days before Thanksgiving last year, the joyous parents flew home with their new seven-month-old daughters...
...weight to his taut cheeks, sketched lines under his eyes and erased the spontaneity from his grin. The face of Carlos Salinas de Gortari recalls Mexico's ubiquitous clay masks: one side smiles, free of trenchant thought; the other is a frieze of pained contemplation. That, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz wrote in The Labyrinth of Solitude 40 years ago, is typical of his countrymen: "His face is a mask, and so is his smile...