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• The Very Edge of the World

Peru was swept by wars of independence and its history spans several millennia . The country boasts many sites where the modern visitor can see extensive and well-preserved ruins, remnants of Inca-period such as Inca architecture and stonework, and even older constructions which continue to confound archaeologists, and has archaeological record that testifies to a history of grotesquely violent cultural change. There is a better-preserved temple not far away, not as easily visible from the avenue, and together with the hill itself, the entire archaeological area known as Puruchuco in Lima which by far the most well-known internationally. Alarcon shares his travel to the area with the local archeologists named Guillermo Cock, whose macabre discovery in the vicinity of the skull of the fi...

..."I thought Vladimiro Montesinos might have buried him here," Cock told me with a l... winter weather has been described as a trick played on the Spanish by the indigenous people. Bu...

• Virginia Quarterly Review, The
• Vol. 83 Nbr. 4, October 2007

• Fraud Inc.

By late 2006, the Cuban-born Moreno was running a fast-growing cluster of medical supply companies and clinics and living the good life, with a spacious lake-view home in Miami and a fleet of cars that included a $200,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom. [...] even if all $7 million in Medicare claims turns out to be spurious, that sizable haul makes Moreno just another bit player amid a host of fraudulent enterprises - healthcare fraud, mortgage fraud, consumer fraud, insurance fraud and other categories of white-collar crime - that collectively amount to one of Florida's biggest industries ("The Value of Florida Fraud," page 66). (chart omitted) Recent headline-making cases include a $194-million hedge fund scheme out of West Palm Beach; a $12-million pump-and-dump securities scam in Fort Lauder...

... fraudulent activity in the state is tricky. Some experts cite an International Monetary Fund ... Peruvian intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos and Byron Jerez, former Nicaraguan tax commissione...

• Florida Trend
• Vol. 51 Nbr. 4, July 2008