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conceived of constructing a great theme park, Interama, at the cost
of $200 million. A few rides and exhibits were completed before the
money disappeared. An accountant's report subsequently found “that
the public funds for the park provided by the city and raised through
bank loans, had gone mostly to deposit accounts in Switzerland and
Luxembourg” (Simpson and Bennett 1985, 203). Under Cacciatore, the
municipal government ran up debts of $2.5 billion, but the news media
could not alert the public to these trends because the military govern-
ment had outlawed all public criticism of its actions.
