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...hundred and eight vendors participated in the event, and about a fourth of those were businesses and restaurants located in the Square. Many of the vendors boasted wares "authentic" to their ancestral heritage, such as African trade beads, Guatemalan hand bags and Australian Aboriginal art. Food--ranging from Indian vegetables to fried dough--was also in plentiful supply...
Another recent project has involved correspondence with the Guatemalan government in an attempt to ease the political persecution of trade unionists in that country. Of course one can't gauge a direct cause-and-effect with such student efforts, but focusing attention on the oppression of a specific community may change international attitudes on the subject...
Nonetheless, the department clearly felt pressured to prove it has not been napping. Justice took a step in that direction last week when a federal grand jury in Miami indicted Munther Bilbeisi, a Jordanian coffee dealer who banked at B.C.C.I., on charges that he smuggled Guatemalan coffee into the U.S. to avoid income taxes on profits from the sale of the beans...
...stifle a four-year-old investigation of a major B.C.C.I. client, coffee smuggler and arms merchant Munther Bilbeisi. "If the $30 million was given to corrupt public officials and that can be proved, then the loan should be wiped out or reduced," says Fernando Arevalo Reina of the Guatemalan Attorney General's office. (Bilbeisi has denied any wrongdoing...
...role as an arms broker. In one transaction Bilbeisi proposed the sale of U.S.-built Jordanian fighter jets and helicopters to Guatemala. According to documents from a Bilbeisi company, three helicopters were delivered at hugely inflated prices, and part of the proceeds was kicked back to high-ranking Guatemalan officers and the brother of former President Vinicio Cerezo. B.C.C.I. financed the deal for a $400,000 commission. Guatemala has brought criminal charges against Bilbeisi, and is seeking his extradition from Jordan...