Articles
A South American Arms Race?
First it was Venezuela, spending $4 billion on Russian fighter planes, Kalashnikovs and perhaps even submarines. Then it was Brazil, in August announcing a 53%...
AIDS Drugs: Doubling as Prevention?
They are the mice that roared — five furry warriors in the battle against AIDS whose role in a Texas-based study has strengthened the possibility that common...
Beauty: Beauty
Yerba maté, the latest ingredient to hit the skin-care market, comes from a small tree in South America. Like green tea and tea-tree oil before it, yerba maté...
Legacy: Gen. Augusto Pinochet
General Augusto Pinochet picked a symbolically apt moment to die. The former Chilean dictator succumbed Sunday at age 91 after suffering a massive coronary...
Frogs of South America Can't Take the Heat
There aren't a whole lot of global warming skeptics left, but those who still need some convincing should take a look at the frogs of Central and South America...
South America: Chavez's Gold Bind
Thousands of miners staged a violent two-week demonstration last September in Las Claritas, Venezuela, close to the Brazilian border. They blocked the border...
South America: Flair, Firmness And Ideas
The noontime sun beat down on a weather-beaten throng of 20,000 assembled in the dusty market town of Casa Grande. Normally toiling in nearby sugarcane fields,...
SOUTH AMERICA: Trouble, Terror and a Takeover
The three southernmost nations of Latin America were near political paralysis last week. Chile, already polarized by a conflict between left and right, was...
South America: Two Queens to the Rescue
At the end of the 19th century, so vast was the empire of Queen Victoria and so prestigious her name that statesmen of lesser lands around the world often...
FOREIGN TRADE: Capital for South America
Six months ago, at the Inter-American Investment Conference in New Orleans, Shipping Tycoon Rudolf Hecht suggested the formation of a U.S.-sponsored company to...
World: FRANCE'S PAD IN SOUTH AMERICA
TO Paris, French Guiana has always been a very special colony. Other outposts provided lucrative markets and natural resources, but Guiana depended on France for...
South America: The Russians Have Come
Not since Czarist days has Russia bothered to foster relations with faraway Peru, or has Peru cared about Russia. Now the two are becoming the best of...
World: SOUTH AMERICA: ARMIES IN COMMAND
SOUTH AMERICA'S present political plight can be summed up in one stark statistic: three out of every four of the continent's citizens now live under military...
SOUTH AMERICA: Uruguay's Choice
In one of the most important elections in their country's history, 860,000 Uruguayans went to the polls this week to decide between democracy and...
Foreign News: Suffering South America
Having twiddled thumbs since President Roosevelt's plans for booming Soviet-U. S. trade went awry (TIME, Feb. n et seq.), the U. S. Embassy staff in Moscow...
AERONAUTICS: In South America
Up from the south came word, last week, of further solidification of Pan American Airways' position as leader of South American air transport routes. Its...
SOUTH AMERICA: On the River of Silver
At his magnificent estancia on the Uruguayan side of the Rio de la Plata, across the river from Buenos Aires, Don Aaron de Anchorena held a hunting party last...
SOUTH AMERICA: Plucked Condor
Five months ago Brazil's sharp-eyed little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas started clipping the wings of the German Condor airline. First snip came in June...
SOUTH AMERICA: Great Republics
To the Blue Room of the White House in Washington went last week delegates from Ecuador and Peru to try to settle their famed century-old boundary dispute...
SOUTH AMERICA: Checks & Cheese
As the week opened the Soviet Union enjoyed diplomatic recognition and relations with only one South American country, the smallest, Uruguay. As the week...
