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of Venezuela, have broken their parole and fled back to England<br />

after fearing they would be killed - see Prisons & Prisoners<br />

07/01/01<br />

* Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, was allowed to<br />

escape extradition to Spain last year because of plans worked out<br />

over many months by Tony Blair, Robin Cook and Eduardo Frei<br />

07/01/01 B 21 6>8<br />

* At least 30 people died when an earthquake shook Central<br />

America and southern Mexico 14/01/01 B 21 7>8<br />

* Amelia Hill investigates the growing trade in babies taken<br />

from the poor of Central America - see Adoption & Fostering<br />

21/01/01<br />

* In the aftermath of El Salvador's huge earthquake, report on<br />

Santa Tecla's lost children 21/01/01 B 25 1>6 Photographs<br />

* A flood of tapes now airing on TV chat shows uncover the<br />

corrupt heart of Peru 04/02/01 B 25 1>6 Photographs<br />

* Coffee producers are struggling with plummeting world prices<br />

- see Financial 18/02/01<br />

* Marcos leads his guerrilla fighters into Mexico city 11/03/01<br />

B 21 1>7 Photographs<br />

* Bogota's eccentric mayor, Antanas Mockus, had imposed a<br />

city-wide voluntary curfew for men last Friday, to encourage<br />

women to go out on the town while their husbands and<br />

boyfriends stayed at home 11/03/01 B 23 1>8 Photographs<br />

* <strong>The</strong> hype surrounding the Manic Street Preachers' tour of Cuba<br />

- see Music: Pop 18/03/01<br />

* Ageing ex-President Carlos Menem's plans to marry a former<br />

Miss Universe and win back power in Argentina are running into<br />

trouble 18/03/01 B 24 1>8 Photograph<br />

* A science expedition to Colombia which ended in nine deaths<br />

has led to a feud over blame - and now Hollywood is interested<br />

too 25/03/01 B 23 `>8 Photographs<br />

* A US surveillance plane was supporting a Peruvian Air Force<br />

fighter which shot down an aircraft carrying American<br />

missionaries in the mistaken belief they were drug runners<br />

22/04/01 B 21 6>7 Photograph<br />

* <strong>The</strong> battle to preserve iconic image of Che Guevara will go on<br />

after the death of photographer, Alberto Korda - see Guevara,<br />

Che 27/05/01<br />

* ICI has pulled out of a controversial project by the US to spray<br />

vast areas of Colombia with herbicides to eradicate its cocaine<br />

and heroin trade 01/07/01 B 5 6<br />

* President Bush is planning to escalate the US war against<br />

drugs from South America with new legislation - see<br />

International Affairs: U.S.A. 22/07/01<br />

* Next month Fidel Castro turns 75, he has promoted a<br />

communist Eden in Cuba, but when the legend is dead, will the<br />

revolution outlive the man? - see Castro, Fidel 29/07/01<br />

* A judge in the Colombian capital of Bogota has ordered the<br />

suspension of the US-inspired drug-eradication programme<br />

29/07/01 B 22 5>6<br />

* America's vanishing border: they call it Amexica, the land that<br />

straddles the porous US-Mexico frontier where rapidly<br />

expanding trade is forging a new culture 05/08/01 B 20 1>8<br />

Photographs, map<br />

* Coffee has fallen to its lowest price in decades, plunging<br />

growers into poverty - yet demand in the West is at record levels<br />

- see Business & Industry 12/08/01<br />

* Desperate coffee growers in central and Latin America are<br />

planting coca, the leaf from which cocaine is produced 12/08/01<br />

N 1 1>4 Photograph<br />

* <strong>The</strong> possibility of a fully-fledged financial crisis in Argentina<br />

OBSERVER INDEX: JAN-DEC <strong>2001</strong><br />

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could not have come at a worse time 12/08/01 N 7 1>3 Graph<br />

* Teaching terror to Marxist guerrillas in Colombia seemed a<br />

nice earner for the Provos, but the fiasco may cost Sinn Fein<br />

hard-won US support - see Ireland 19/08/01<br />

* Right-wing prisoners are plotting to execute the three Irishmen<br />

accused of teaching terrorist skills to Marxist rebels in<br />

Colombia, according to sources inside the jail - see Ireland<br />

/Northern Ireland 26/08/01<br />

* Profile on Daniel Ortega, who was, 20 years ago, the romantic<br />

hero who led tiny Nicaragua against the might of the US could<br />

be back in November's elections - see Ortega, Daniel 02/09/01<br />

* <strong>The</strong> former Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, switches<br />

nationality to Japan to escape extradition for mass-murder<br />

charges at home 16/09/01 B 8 1>8<br />

* Peasants leading a popular uprising in Bolivia say there is now<br />

a simple choice between the coca leaf and US aid dollars<br />

16/09/01 B 9 1>7<br />

* Did Gloria Trevi, once Mexico's most successful pop star,<br />

impregnate herself in prison to escape extradition on sexual<br />

abuse charges? 28/10/01 B 27 1>6 Photograph<br />

* Report from Managua on the veteran Sandinista leader who's<br />

reinvented himself in his bid to win back power in today's<br />

Nicaraguan elections 04/11/01 B 25 1>6 Photographs, map<br />

* Teachers, police and doctors have not been paid for months in<br />

Buenos Aires 18/11/01 B 26 1>5 Photograph<br />

* As scandal hits Pele's sports firm, Brazil has to reassess its<br />

revered hero 25/11/01 B 25 1>4 Photographs<br />

* Sir Peter Blake was on a quest to make the world a better place<br />

- but his voyage ended in death - report from the Brazilian state<br />

where river pirates conduct ambushes - see Blake, Sir Peter<br />

09/12/01<br />

* <strong>The</strong> economic crisis in Argentina has led to long, angry bank<br />

queues and a rise in panic attacks and suicides 09/12/01 B 23<br />

1>6 Photograph<br />

* At least 25 people died and 200 were injured when a blaze<br />

swept through a prison after a guard gunned down an inmate in<br />

Paraguay 16/12/01 B 22 6<br />

* Many fear the worst as Argentina slides into financial<br />

meltdown over its crippling $132bn debt burden 23/12/01 B 15<br />

1>7 Photograph<br />

* Argentine police use tear gas on protesters in day of chaos<br />

30/12/01 B 17 1>4 Photograph<br />

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: EASTERN EUROPE<br />

* Albanians force new Balkan crisis 25/02/01 B 22 1>5<br />

Photograph<br />

* Croats vote to secede from Bosnia 04/03/01 B 21 1>4<br />

* <strong>The</strong> US secretly supported the ethnic Albanian extremists now<br />

behind insurgencies in Macedonia and southern Serbia 11/03/01<br />

B 2 4>7<br />

* War is looming again as border disputes make enemies of old<br />

allies in Macedonia, Nato must deal with a new breed of ethnic<br />

extremists 11/03/01 B 24>25 1>5 Photograph<br />

* All-out war threatens the Balkans 18/03/01 B 1>2 4>8<br />

* Nightmare in Macedonia: ethnic Albanians believe<br />

government will give way but fighting fuels hatred between<br />

communities 18/03/01 B 21 1>8 Photograph<br />

* Returning to Kosovo for the second anniversary of the Nato<br />

bombardment, <strong>Observer</strong> foreign affairs editor Peter Beaumont<br />

meets survivors on both sides of the conflict 25/03/01 M 16>22<br />

1>4 Photographs<br />

* Macedonian activists, outraged at Albanian extremism, are

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