Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to Gustafson, what is worrisome about Menchu's exposure is that it might put into question the credibility of other witnesses to the crises in Guatemala...
Speaking through an interpreter, the two factory workers--Claudia Victoria Barrios and Dora Cristina Morales--recounted their struggles against low pay, poor hygiene and physical violence at a shirt factory in Guatemala City...
Members of the movement will continue their crusade Monday night in a meeting with former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and two former sweatshop workers from Guatemala, Hennefeld said...
...code--Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League are posed this week to adopt the toothless, industry-approved, Apparel Industry Task Force (AIP) code that includes none of these provisions. Phillips-Van Heusen, one of the main proponents of this pitiful code, closed the only unionized plant in Guatemala last December soon after that code was announced--a good indication of the behavior we can expect from factories adhering to the industry code...
...Teotihuacan was the largest city in Mesoamerica in its heyday (about A.D. 500) and one of the six largest in the world--larger even than Rome. Its political power reached all the way to Mayan city-states hundreds of miles away, with outposts as far away as Guatemala...