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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