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Desertion isn't a decision made lightly: such disloyalty can often mean a death sentence for former guerrillas or their families. In the midst of a workshop, William, 14, leaves the room to take a phone call from his mother. He returns, distracted, biting his nails. His mother is now on FARC's hit list. "If I didn't demobilize, this wouldn't be happening to my mom," he says, looking down. "I don't know what to do. I love my mother very much." Despite the danger, many do leave, disillusioned by the lack of pay and traumatized...
...sworn in as President in December 2006, the carnage had become too much to ignore. He began a military offensive against the gangs that now employs some 40,000 troops. Calderón's supporters insist the brutal counteroffensive by the gangs is a sign that they were rattled. Critics call the relentless violence proof that Calderón took a baseball bat to a hornet's nest but wasn't ready for the hornets - and point out that the Mexican army is not particularly well trained for the urban-guerrilla nature of drug wars. Either way, by last year Washington...
Tomorrow, April 24th, Armenians around the world will gather on what they call Martyrs’ Day to commemorate the Ottoman Empire’s deportation and mass slaughter of Armenians during World War I. Armenians and many others deem this the first genocide of the 20th century, citing scholarly consensus that the atrocities were a well-documented and premeditated wartime assault on an ethnic and religious minority...
...going to respond specifically to Cheney because I think the White House has done that. The one caveat I would say with regard to how the administration has begun to handle this is that to call terrorist attacks ‘manmade disasters’ doesn’t make sense. What I’m concerned about is that the characterization of our effort against these extremists has rhetorically been minimized. I haven’t seen anything that President Obama has done yet that makes me fearful that we will be less than vigorous in our approach...
From each restaurant or shop's page, it is possible to go to a map, call the place, or go to their website in one click—and the restaurants hours and a short review are just scroll away...