Dollars Flowing from Passports
Disparity between the lifestyles of UNTAET personnel and the people of Timor Loro Sa'e is sowing the seeds of social envy.
October 30, 2001
The brothers Soares, 32-year-old Abe Barreto and Mica Barreto, 29, are staff members of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET)'s press office. They have the same daily tasks: to interact with journalists and provide them with the necessary information needed for publication. They were both educated in Java: the older brother is a dropout from Gajah Mada University's Faculty of Letters, while Mica completed his gradua
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