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...change to get by. Most currently earn less than $10 per hour. These wage and benefit proposals degrade the value of janitors’ work and insult their families’ needs. Harvard’s intransigence at the bargaining table is so offensive that Edgar Barrios, a Guatemalan immigrant worker at the Business School who is on Local 254’s negotiating team told us, “The management team has no ethics. If they were doctors, all their patients would be dead...
...June, I had the honor of visiting the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City to discuss humanitarian aid programs. While there, I was shocked by the comments made by an assistant to the ambassador. He made several disparaging remarks about the Guatemalan people, and he was not helpful in furthering the interests of culturally sensitive aid organizations in the country. The shortcomings of our diplomats perpetuate a highly negative image of America in the developing world...
...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...
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...