Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prisoners in exchange for the 73 hostages, including Fujimori's brother and the Peruvian foreign minister, who have been held for a month by the Marxist Tupac Amaru inside the Japanese ambassador's residence. The semi-conciliatory announcement follows on the heels of a brisk government rejection Thursday of Guatemala as a negotiator for the rebels at the talks, tentatively scheduled to begin early next week in a Lima church. Already, though, Fujimori's overture-of-sorts has shown signs of bearing fruit: after a 17-day stalemate, the rebels released another hostage early Friday afternoon, anti-terrorism police official...
...fancy hotels, parks and wealthy enclaves lining the waterfront, Miami comprises largely the kind of inner-city neighborhoods that never make it into the tourist brochures. Middle-class flight--first of whites and now of Cubans--has made Miami increasingly a city of struggling, often illegal immigrants from Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. The downtown business district, which pays about 30% of Miami's taxes, is losing patience. "Taxes in Miami are twice what they are in the county, police and sanitation services are poor, and increasingly businesses don't see it as worth it," says Gene Stearns, a Miami...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "When the [CIA] was implicated in the death of an American in Guatemala, I broke the silence...and defended a widowed housewife against the American intelligence community...
...state, someone not too smart, not too skeptical." When Peter first arrives in Hamburg in 1985, Kramer writes, "He had a little cassette player, tapes by Pink Floyd, Grace Slick, and the Grateful Dead, a filter coffeepot, and two hundred and fifty grams of Jacobs Fein und Mild Guatemala-blend coffee. He had everything he needed until someone came and told him what...
JORGE SERRANO Guatemala Granted asylum in Panama City in 1993, the ex-President is trying to build an exclusive housing complex there. Cedras reportedly toured the property, which is said to be financially troubled...