Word: guatemala
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...constitution for the country. The assembly, or loya jirga, broke down in chaos after 200 of the 502 delegates boycotted a vote on a number of controversial amendments. It reconvened only to stall again, reportedly over the issue of the rights of minority tribes. Right Turn GUATEMALA Conservative businessman and former Guatemala City Mayor Oscar Berger was elected President in a second-round runoff with 54% of the vote, easily beating center-left rival Alvaro Colom, who received 46%. Berger promised to boost the ailing economy by encouraging investment and stamping out the corruption that tainted the administration of outgoing...
...female ability to be neutral and to naturally attract people towards dialogue rather than aggression acts as a catalyst in conflict resolution, said the peace advocates from Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Iraq and South Korea...
...armed with a cup of fair trade coffee in hand. Her hair is washed with organic shampoo and her teeth brushed with organic fennel baking soda, both from Tom’s of Maine. She made her Macrame bracelet herself while on a summer expedition inspecting labor conditions in Guatemala...
When General Efrain Rios Montt was Guatemala's military dictator from 1982 to 1983, during the bloodiest phase of a 36-year-long civil war, his army massacred Maya Indian peasants suspected of aiding leftist guerrillas. The throb of military helicopters above highlands villages was often followed by deafening automatic rifle fire. Tens of thousands died, and a federal genocide case is now pending against Ríos Montt in a Guatemalan court. Asked at the time about his "scorched-earth" strategy, Ríos Montt quipped, "We don't have a policy of scorched earth - we have a policy...
Many Central American migrants seek out groups like the Uxpanapa to get a measure of protection inside what they call "the corridor of death," the forbidding territory just north of the Mexico-Guatemala border. There, a vicious army of Central American gangbangers called the Mara Salvatrucha are known for assaulting, robbing and raping passing migrants. From there, Uxpanapa clients are often loaded onto freight trains for a two-day journey to Veracruz, Mexico. Hundreds of migrants can be pressed into empty cargo cars, especially when railroad security are paid to look the other way. Nearer the U.S. border, they...