Word: guatemala
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...tropical climate and southeast Mexico's lush countryside to gaze at. These folks are going home. Trouble is, they don't want to. When the bus crosses the border and pulls up on the narrow, rain-soaked street in front of the immigration office in El Carmen Frontera, Guatemala, its passengers are in a foul mood. Home is El Salvador or Honduras or Nicaragua or Guatemala itself--all disaster plagued, crime-ridden, poorer by the minute and, as far as those on the bus are concerned, best seen in the rear-view mirror. They had hoped to travel through Mexico...
...them Central Americans heading for the U.S. to look for work. Even before the campaign began, Mexico was stepping up deportations--93,563 during the first six months of this year, a huge increase over the rate in 2000. Originally, the deportees were simply taken across the border to Guatemala; now, thanks to a deal with that country, Mexico is sending them right back to the country they came from--as if Mexicans deported from the U.S. were not only sent across the Rio Grande but taken back to their home villages...
...GUATEMALA Mass Breakout Guatemala's President Alfonso Portillo imposed a state of emergency, suspending freedom of movement and other constitutional rights after 78 of the country's most dangerous criminals broke out of a top security prison. Thousands of police, backed up by troops and helicopters, scoured the country for the escaped murderers, rapists, kidnappers and drug traffickers - 13 of whom were on death row - recapturing 25. Two officials and 19 guards at the prison were detained on suspicion of collusion in the escape...
...When in issue two, Harry inexplicably shows up in Guatemala, Chaykin folds political intrigue into the story. Apparently the U.S. makes a show of supporting the current dictator, while secretly preparing to put a hand-picked puppet in his place. Simultaneously the communists (secretly in cahoots with the dictator's amazonian wife) plan their own insurgency. Meanwhile, Harry has become a pilot smuggling arms to the communists, not for political reasons, but just for the thrill. Throw in some homosexual ex-pats, a whore named Carlita, a transvestite named Pinky, Russian secret agents and a sleazy representative...
Since then, McKean, who is also a Crimson editor, has devoted himself to the living wage as well as other causes. He spent last summer in Guatemala working with unions and giving presentations to workers on their rights...