THE COVER-UP
A mother's son disappears after taken prisoner by the Mexican secret police for demonstrating against the government. It was rumored he was taken into the mountains together with dozens of other student protestors and was never heard of again. In looking for the young man, I came up against a brick wall of "cover-up"

TRAGIC BUT TRUE.
Military coup, against the sitting president of Peru, is planned and executed by trusted Generals and Admirals. The ex-president, dressed as he was at midnight on the night of the coup, in pajamas, robe, and house slippers, is flown to a neighboring country. Witnessing the regime changed by armed military bully boys was a sad moment for me.

A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.
Negotiations broke down with the printing plant management that had been taken over by the new Marxist Government in Chile. In a hostile, warlike confrontational scene, the negotiations included disparaging remarks of capitalism by the Marxists and I countered with some of the same about the Marxists. Finally, I introduced Batman as our hero and my eight hundred pound gorilla to save the day.

DON'T BLINK.
In the magazine newsstand sales business in Mexico, the only strategy to an attack by the competition, is a counter attack. I brought out the heavies type head busters and went for jugular. Stay the course and give no quarter and win.

SEX AND THE COUNTRY.
At a recent meeting of the Chamber of the National Publishing Industry in Mexico, the topic for the day was pornography. This chamber authorizes the publishing and distribution of all publications in Mexico. I managed to shoot down the conventional wisdom about pornography allowing the contested magazine to circulate and ending the meeting in defeat for the government position.

AN EXCITING JOURNEY.
From the bomb in a hotel room in the Buenos Aires Sheraton Hotel, to the kidnapping in Bogotá Colombia, to the power of life and death by the largest and bloodiest terrorist operations in Latin America, Expat takes the reader from the deadly serious to the humorous and the tragic.