Word: guatemalans
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Drug-related violence in Guatemala has become increasingly savage over the past two years as powerful Mexican cartels battle each other and Guatemalan traffickers for control over what has become a key link in the cocaine route from Colombia to the United States. The most recent battle, on Nov. 30, left at least 17 dead when a shootout broke out near the Guatemala-Mexico border. Last March, 11 men died in a shootout at a rural recreation spot. And those are just the events that made headlines; experts say there have been, and will be, more. "Frankly, I think...
...highly porous Guatemala-Mexico border and elsewhere in Central America. "Now there's an all-out struggle to see who gets to dominate this link in the drug trafficking chain," says Bagley. The contenders include Mexico's two dominant drug enterprises - the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels, along with their Guatemalan partners...
...psyche. The result is a shockingly detailed, brutally credible, and unexpectedly comedic novel. Moya, who was born in Honduras and raised in El Salvador, was exiled because of his socially conscious opinons. “Senselessness” is based on the atrocities of the 40-year Guatemalan genocide and the human rights report of the Guatemalan Catholic Archdiocese that exposed the massacres. It is his first work to be translated into English, and it utilizes material from the real report. The novel is a stream-of-consciousness first-person account of an anonymous writer in an unnamed Latin American...
...spring. Reagan wants to end a four-year freeze on arms sales to that country imposed by then-President Carter because of serious human rights violations. Rios Montt has done nothing to deserve the trust that such a change in U.S. policy would indicate. New elections, promised by the Guatemalan leader, are still unsure, and terrorism—particularly from rightist death squads—continues to plague the country. Reagan’s desire—announced during his trip—to send more guns to Guatemala would only make the situation worse. Also last spring, the White...
...contemporary politics, and the front-runner in the presidential runoff - retired General Perez Molina, whose right-wing Patriotic Party has a very slight lead over left-leaning businessman Alvaro Colom in some opinion polls - has been the subject of allegations in a new book on the 1998 assassination of Guatemalan human rights crusader Bishop Juan Gerardi. Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in the parish house of his Guatemala City church the day after he published an exhaustive report of human rights violations by the Guatemalan army during the civil war. Although three military officers were convicted of the murder...