Word: libertad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others contended that many refugees have simply gone underground. Said E.J. Flynn, an attorney for Proyecto Libertad, a legal-aid organization: "What will happen now is they will take their chances going north alone, without documents, or pay people to help them...
...blizzard of ticker tape fell from the skies, Peru's most famous novelist stepped onto a rickety stage in downtown Lima. Before him, a crowd of 25,000 waved red-and-white Peruvian flags and chanted "Libertad! Libertad!" ("Freedom! Freedom!"). They then began to shout his name: "Mario! Mario! Mario...
Ortega and the Sandinista revolution came of age together. Daniel, the eldest of five children, was born in 1945 in the northern town of La Libertad. His father, a small businessman, was an avid supporter of the guerrilla forces of the legendary Augusto Cesar Sandino, who was killed by the dictatorship's National Guard. Both father and mother were imprisoned under the first Somoza regime, and Daniel was jailed for his activism at the age of 15. His younger brother Camilo was killed in 1978 during the Nicaraguan revolution, and another brother, Humberto, fought side by side with Daniel until...
...useful to Castro as when he first used it extensively for such purposes back in the mid '60s. At the only functional gate remaining in the barbed-wire-lined and mine-strewn perimeter, I saw a sign on the Cuban side. Through binoculars I could read it: Territorio Libertad de America. And one of the weekends I was there, we heard that a huge Cuban independence celebration was being held in nearby Guantanamo City. Castro himself was supposed to attend. It's not hard to imagine the type of speech he gave...
...whom had criminal records in Cuba. Four years later, 1,500 of them still await resolution of their cases, a mass of increasingly desperate men locked in the granite cell blocks of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Last Thursday the Marielitos rioted, setting mattresses and clothing afire amid shouts of "?Libertad...