Coke Up, Slim Down For the overweight who have tried everything, a really new offer: lose weight at altitude on coca-based prod- ucts. The last word in exotic slimming clinics is about to open on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca, at 12,500 feet above sea level. The first guests have booked for mid-October. The Economist August 31, 1991 Passing the Buck Chile, fighting smog that covers the capital in winter, will sell its old buses to Haiti, Peru and Nicaragua, the na- tional news agency Orbe said Friday. Miami Herald August 31, 1991 Emerging Market, Receding Forest Madhav Dhar, head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Asset Man- agement in New York, is bullish on Brazilian forest-product companies such as Aracruz Celulose and Compan- hia Suzano de Papel e Celulose, "inter- nationally competitive world-class com- panies with some of the largest paper mills in the world." Wall Street Journal September 20, 1991 Police Violence Explained Interviewer: The charges of aggres- sion and murder by police personnel greatly surpass even those against drug traffickers, who used to be responsible for the greatest number of crimes. Does carrying a weapon give the police the right to use it against the people? Peruvian National Police General Director Adolfo Cuba y Escobedo: No, sir. But police were prohibited from carrying weapons in the past. Carrying weapons all the time makes the police susceptible to use them at any time. Expreso (Lima) October 23, 1991 History as Fantasy Never again may mortal men hope to recapture the amazement, the won- der, the delight of those October days in 1492 when the New World gracefully yielded her virginity to the conquering Castilians. S.E. Morrison in Admiral of the Ocean Sea (classic Columbus biography published in 1942) Aid in the New World Order Contractor shall formulate a strat- egy for privation in Bolivia. U.S.AID Listing of Contracts and Grants October 1989-September 1990 Nurturing the Ball and Chain The only reason for the United States to push aggressively to restore Aristide is because his is the youngest democ- racy in the hemisphere and the last link in a chain of democratic governments Washington has been trying to nurture next door for the last 20 years. News Analysis, The New York Times October 4, 1991 Love in the Time of Hyperinflation It wasn't easy to pilot the blasted eighth-largest economy in the world with such a bruised heart. Zelia: A Passion Memoirs of Brazil's former Economics Minister Zelia Cardoso de Mello Social Airs You're part of the Third World due to some accident of history, a war or something. You don't choose to be part of the Third World. If you do, there's definitely something wrong with you. Imagine. At the last Non-Aligned Ministers' meeting, Argentina was asked to be on a commissionwith Cuba, Nigeria and Uganda! Guido di Tella Argentina's Foreign Minister Columbia University, New York November 19, 1991 Maoist Nomenclature Editor: MC44 Production: MCO Prison Editor: MCI 1 Notas de MIM: MA50 & MCI7 Masthead MIM Notes: The Official Newsletter of the Maoist International Movement December 1991 CORRECTION Due to an editing error, the sidebar entitled "Coca Leaves: The Only Cash Crop," in our issue "Bolivia: The Pov- erty of Progess" (Vol. XXV, No. 1), was attributed to the wrong author. It was written by Linda Farthing.
