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...need to build bridges with youth workers and, frankly, with gang members,” he said...
...need to build bridges with youth workers and, frankly, with gang members," he said...
...enforcement and justice system has left 98 percent of cases unsolved, prompting some citizens to take the law into their own hands. On Thursday, for example, an angry mob in the small town of San Juan Sacatepequez captured and burned alive three teenagers suspected of belonging to a street gang. Perez Molina has built support by promising to put more soldiers on the streets to fight crime, and to use the death penalty more frequently. He also supports temporarily suspending some constitutional rights in crime-ridden areas, a tactic used several times last year by incumbent President Oscar Berger...
...commercial pressure on these artists to churn out foreigner-friendly images that don't stretch their imaginations. Many galleries are complicit, preferring to stock interchangeable images of women in conical hats strolling past crumbling French architecture. "Art students know they can make a good living painting these themes," says Gang of Five painter Luong. "It's difficult to convince them to be adventurous...
...Officially, Zhou never made a mistake. The Gang of Four, the radical clique that oversaw the Cultural Revolution, was overthrown in 1976. Mao Zedong, once deemed infallible, has been revised downward - according to official formulation - to 70% correct and 30% wrong. Only Zhou, the urbane architect of China's rapprochement with the West, remains untarnished among China's revolutionary heroes...