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- <text id=94TT0055>
- <title>
- Jan. 17, 1994: A Litany Of Latin American Troubles
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jan. 17, 1994 Genetics:The Future Is Now
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MEXICO, Page 34
- A Litany Of Latin American Troubles
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Mexico is not alone among Latin American nations, both as a
- target of economic opportunity and as a hotbed of continuing
- social and political conflict. A sampling of other trouble spots:
- </p>
- <p> GUATEMALA. A series of governments have failed to put an end
- to a sputtering, 32-year-old civil war that has taken an estimated
- 100,000 lives; new talks began last week.
- </p>
- <p> EL SALVADOR. A two-year-old peace is threatened by a new outbreak
- of killings attributed to right-wing death squads; about two
- dozen leftists have been murdered since the war ended.
- </p>
- <p> NICARAGUA. Despite the transition to a multiparty democracy,
- the Sandinistas still control security forces, and the contras
- are itching for a rematch.
- </p>
- <p> VENEZUELA. A series of attempted military coups and civil disturbances
- has afflicted the country; last week 123 died in a Maracaibo
- prison riot pitting Guajiro Indians against other prisoners.
- Nine prisoners and a guard died in a Caracas prison riot.
- </p>
- <p> PERU. President Alberto Fujimori is credited with knocking the
- wind out of the brutal Shining Path insurgency by capturing
- or killing its leadership, but 1,692 people were killed in guerrilla
- and counterinsurgency violence last year. Terrorism caused $1
- billion worth of damage.
- </p>
- <p> BRAZIL. The continent's largest economy is consumed by hyperinflation
- and a huge congressional corruption scandal that has paralyzed
- the government and renewed rumors of a possible military coup.
- </p>
- <p> ARGENTINA. President Carlos Menem is presiding over a remarkable
- revival of what was a once moribund economy, but his austerity
- program has triggered a series of food riots in the suburbs
- of Buenos Aires.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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