Word: guatemalans
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...reliance on diplomatic cover for its main officers, which stymies attempts to recruit locals in countries like Afghanistan, where the U.S. has no embassy, or Pakistan, where the native spooks keep close tabs on official Americans. Ever since a 1995 uproar about the CIA's use of Guatemalan informants linked to torture and murder, the agency has been required to perform "human rights" checks on its assets. Last week George H.W. Bush criticized the restriction. "We have to free up the intelligence system from some of its constraints," he said. The spy game is "kind of a dirty business...
...order to gather intelligence about terrorist plots, members of Congressional intelligence committees have called for allowing the Central Intelligence Agency to hire agents who have committed human rights violations. The policy against hiring such agents was issued in the mid-1990s, after a Guatemalan Army officer who killed an American expatriate was found to have CIA ties. Although the case for recruiting spies from within terrorist organizations is simple, any effort to repeal the policy should take extreme care not to increase the power of individuals whose agendas may run fundamentally counter to that of the U.S. Soliciting information...
Sometimes as many as 15 buses a day head for the Guatemalan border. Guatemalan deportees are left to their own devices. Other Central Americans board a second bus to Guatemala City. There, yet another bus carries them to their own countries. "El Salvador accepts people from everywhere, including Mexico," complains Ana Carolina Herrera, 27, from Usulutan, El Salvador, who is waiting to board a bus south. "So why can't we enter Mexico...
Central Americans know all about Mexico's reputation before they cross the border. That doesn't stop them. At El Carmen Frontera, Guatemalan immigration officials wait for the next busload of deportees. "I don't believe this will solve the problem," says one of them, with some reason. Already, he says, Central Americans are dodging the crackdown, using remote routes to cross the border into Mexico. Two thousand miles to the north, Mexican immigrants to the U.S. are doing precisely the same thing...
...Labor Secretary refocused attention on the unlawfulness of harboring or employing illegal immigrants. But the latest story from America's underground work force has come through in lawsuits across the nation in recent years: that once hired, such workers are entitled to legal protection from abuse. Marta Mercado, the Guatemalan who received some $1,500 from Chavez over two years and did chores for her, has no complaints about her treatment. But many undocumented laborers, whose illegal status makes them vulnerable to exploitation...