Word: guatemala
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Recent immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere, even those cast into the tent camps, declared fatalistically that they had no intention of moving away. On the other hand, psychologist Michael Gellert noted that many longtime residents had heard so much about the danger that they took earthquakes for granted. When the possibility became real, many were jolted out of their denial. "I used to figure that if you have a life-span of 70 years, you'll have to go through one really bad one -- three minutes of absolute hell and then a few months thereafter of cleanup...
...portable TV; a radio is playing Mexican pop. There is less panic here than among the Anglos, but more sadness. Yvonne Androver, 27, a cleaning woman, glances at her nephew Brando, age nine months. He is fast asleep, contented. She has been jolted back into her past: Guatemala in 1976. A 7.5 on the Richter scale. Twenty-three thousand people dead. "I remember all of it," she says. "The houses going down, the people crying...
...GUATEMALA. A series of governments have failed to put an end to a sputtering, 32-year-old civil war that has taken an estimated 100,000 lives; new talks began last week...
...Cuba's not great, but neither are many of thecountries we deal with," Brenner said, namingChina, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia, and El Salvador...
...knows exactly how many illegal immigrants are in the U.S. The Immigration and Naturalization Service estimate is 3.2 million, with an additional 200,000 to 300,000 arriving each year. Most come from the Third World -- the list is topped by Mexico, followed by sizable minorities from El Salvador, Guatemala and Haiti -- but Canada and Poland also contribute a good share. The illegals cross the porous border from Baja California, heading north to Los Angeles, where the wages are relatively high and the questions relatively few. They come from China, in coffin ships like the Golden Venture, in quest...