Word: lima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech, Garcia said that he had ordered the arrest of police chiefs and officers who had taken part in the storming of Lurigancho prison near Lima on June 18. At least 124 inmates died in the operation, including those killed after the prisoners had ended their resistance. Declared the President: "What happened after the surrender in Lurigancho is a crime that I will not silence." While condemning the police, Garcia strongly defended Peruvian marines who attacked another prison, on the island of El Fronton, where as many as 270 Shining Path disciples died...
...authorizing the use of lethal force against the prisoners, Garcia underscored his determination to defeat the Shining Path. The radical group had timed the insurrections to humiliate the President while prominent world figures were in Lima for a congress of the Socialist International, an organization of socialist and social-democratic parties. The gathering was held in Peru to recognize efforts by Garcia's center-left government to stabilize the country's economy, which has been crippled by the falling prices of oil, copper and other major exports...
...week in Britain, five of the top ten singles were by black Americans. Last year two-fifths of French movie box-office receipts went to U.S. films. A catalog detailing such worldwide U.S. hegemony is a source of pride and some embarrassment. Most of the 47 radio stations in Lima, Peru, play mainly American pop music. In Nairobi last week, ten of the 16 movies playing were American, and in a record store at the Sarit Centre shopping mall, a poster of Joe Piscopo, of all people, is on the wall -- not far from the ubiquitous Sly Stallone. The Rambo...
...feel so bad about indulging in its exports." But even then, apolitical American targets are not always off limits. After the U.S. bombing of Libya in April, a mob in Barcelona stoned a local McDonald's. Last year Peruvian Marxists sprayed graffiti and burned tables at three of Lima's five Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants...
...nobody's going to go back and eat their lima beans after the apple...