Word: arroyo
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...January, Boston City Councillor Felix Arroyo, who opposes war in Iraq, announced that he would remain on a hunger strike until the nation’s aggressive policies against Iraq were reversed. By now, Arroyo’s promise to subsist on an all liquid diet should have lasted...
...Solitary confinement adds nothing to rehabilitation. It handicaps the ability of a person to function socially,” said Felix D. Arroyo, a Boston city councillor who spoke at the event...
...Arroyo called solitary confinement “torture...
...Philippines After two weeks of fierce fighting and bombings in Mindanao that left 200 dead, negotiations between the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the administration of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo are in bad shape. Recent evidence linking the rebels to al-Qaeda has helped fuel a troubling escalation. The U.S., which last year assisted the Philippine army's efforts to eliminate Abu Sayyaf guerrillas on the southern island of Basilan, will soon send 1,700 troops back to the region, including 350 members of the special forces, to help finish the job. But this go-round they...
...Manila, expelled from the Philippines last week? There is little doubt that Husain had been pushing the boundaries of proper diplomatic conduct by attending and even helping to organize rallies against the U.S., and meeting with a wide variety of individuals openly hostile to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's administration. But was he really involved in the wave of terrorist bombings on the southern island of Mindanao that the government blames on Abu Sayyaf, the Islamic guerrilla group that, in its early days, had links to al-Qaeda? Or, as skeptics suggest, is the Philippine intelligence community performing...