Word: guatemala
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While their peers flock to more popular south American spots like Cancun, the 25 members of The Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy (HACIA) will spend this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Guatemala City running a mock Organization of the American States (OAS) conference...
...past several months, 300 students from public and private schools in Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, the U.S. and Guatemala have been preparing to attend the event...
Several prominent public figures will be guest speakers at the conference, including the former president of Guatemala, The U.S. ambassador to the country, the former foreign minister and a Guatemalan leader for indigenous rights...
Increased publicity and sponsorship have made scholarship funds available for students from public schools in Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to travel to Guatemala for the conference, Shull said, whereas before this year only Guatemalan students would have been able...
Your article pointed out that the CIA's participation in installing repressive regimes in Iran, Guatemala and Chile "ended up doing more damage in the long run to U.S. foreign policy." But more important, as a direct result of CIA intervention in foreign countries, despotic dictators were given the power to politically oppress their people and to imprison, torture and murder them. Ironically, these are among the same abuses that the U.S. government now cites in its argument for a military invasion of Iraq. Our policymakers continue to demonstrate a purely self-serving attitude toward the populations of poor...