Word: maldonado
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...slide started near the top of the slope and gathered force in an avalanche of devastation. A shear of heavy clay and loosened limestone outcroppings tore through the flimsy homes, crushing many like so much matchwood and trapping their occupants. "I cannot explain how we are alive," recounted Julio Maldonado, who with his wife and six children escaped the swath of the slide. "First the entrance wall fell off, and then the other walls fell off. And then we were sliding down, sandwiched between the floor and the ceiling...
...subversion in the region. But the commission members flatly condemned the country's abysmal human rights record (see box). In a tense confrontation with right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland angrily questioned D'Aubuisson's charges that Samuel Maldonado, leader of the 100,000-strong Salvadoran Communal Union, a peasant organization that has close ties to U.S. labor groups, had collaborated with leftist guerrillas...
...move took most of Guatemala's 7.5 million people by surprise. Rios Montt requested and secured the resignation of Brigadier General Horacio Egberto Maldonado Schaad, a docile officer who was apparently tired of being a figurehead. After that, he summoned his other partner, Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martinez, to breakfast at the presidential residence and demanded the colonel's resignation. Gordillo Martinez stubbornly refused to submit it. He reconsidered, however, when heavily armed soldiers restrained him and escorted him to his office...
...without arms," protested one of the candidates. "I don't understand." Suddenly, a red tear-gas canister landed in the street, scattering the group of journalists who had accompanied the candidates. Sniper fire popped like firecrackers a block away. Finally, the three presidential candidates?Mario Sandoval Alarcón, Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre and Gustavo Anzueto Vielman?offered to go alone to present their grievances to the authorities. The candidates never made it to the presidential palace. Instead, they were taken to police headquarters and lectured by Police Chief General German Chupina for almost an hour...
When the speech is over and the caravan heads out of town, Maldonado and Carpio are moved into the two bulletproof vans, and the volunteers who ride shotgun unsheath their weapons. For the next hour, the campaigners drive watchfully through the narrow roads and mountain passes at twilight until, it seems, the danger is gone. On the way back to the capital, Maldonado and his men are exhausted, caked with the day's dirt. "We go with our language of moderation, peace, everything, trusting justice rather than strength," says the candidate. "I know it's difficult...