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...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...
...result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 3 ft., enormous areas of densely populated land--coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh--would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically, making central Canada look more like central Illinois, Georgia more like Guatemala. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...
...result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 1 m, enormous areas of densely populated land?coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh?would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically, making central Canada look more like central Illinois, Georgia more like Guatemala. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...