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...Juan Guzman was luckier than most. He spent nearly a decade in Orange County, Calif., washing and repairing cars, cutting grass and performing the odd jobs that, he says, "Americans have forgotten how to do." Guzman, 26, believes he can qualify for permanent U.S. residence, though he has returned home for the time being. But he wants his two children, both born in California, to become acquainted with Mexico first. Guzman quickly landed a job repairing the town's official vehicles, though he cheerfully concedes he had a big advantage. His father is the chief of police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Sad Return of the Prodigal Sons | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

Farther inland, at Atenquique, a town in Jalisco state, part of a mountain, said a policeman, "just slid away," burying several people. In nearby Ciudad Guzman, 25 people were killed as they worshiped in a church that collapsed on them. Elsewhere, four popular hotels in the hard-hit resort area of Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa, on the Pacific coast, had to be evacuated because of damage: Riviera del Sol, El Presidente, Dorado Pacifico and the Sheraton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Noise Like Thunder | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...airport, the plane struck the tip of a 177-ft.-high television antenna on Mount Oiz (elevation 3,366 ft.), burst into flames and crashed into a wooded hillside. All 148 people aboard were killed. Three Americans were among the passengers, as was Bolivia's Minister of Labor, Gonzalo Guzman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Something Must Be Wrong | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...part on the startling discrepancies between shards of evidence-mostly photographs, audio recordings and videotapes made on the fateful afternoon-and the well-rehearsed military account, recited by a parade of soldiers both on and off the witness stand. Last November, for example, a military sharpshooter named Rolando De Guzman testified that while sitting with a SWAT team in a parked van on the tarmac, he saw Galman shoot Aquino near by. Instantly, said De Guzman, he pumped seven bullets into the alleged assassin. Then his colleagues began firing too. Tapes, however, revealed that De Guzman's testimony took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: The Heart of the Matter | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...case of Guatemala illustrates perfectly what befalls a country when its own policies oppose U.S. interests. In 1950, the State Department, beset with Cold War fever, grew frightened at the presence of a small number of Communists in the liberal coalition of popularly elected president, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. After Arbenz under took a program of land reform in a country where two percent of the population owned close to 75 percent of the land, U.S. officials said they sniffed Communist influence. The Guatemalan government's subsequent confiscation of uncultivated land owned by United Fruit Company prompted the U.S. to begin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Terrible History | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

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