Word: mariela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court strike began in stages Thursday after federal judge Mariela Espinoza was shot down with automatic weapons Wednesday in front of her home in Medellin, headquarters of the most notorious cocaine cartel...
...operators offered false papers for fees ranging from $200 to $2,000. Employers have sometimes willingly falsified papers to make sure their source of cheap migrant workers remains available. While the extent of fraud is debatable, its existence is not. "We had applicants flying in from New York," says Mariela Melero, Houston district INS spokeswoman. Some supposed farm workers, when interviewed by INS, described picking chili peppers with ladders or stooping to harvest grapefruit...
Some Panamanians fear that Noriega will never leave without military intervention from the north. "The Americans put Noriega here," said a middle-class protester. "Now they have to get him out." Concurred another: "Everybody is hoping for the Americans to interfere." That includes Mariela Delvalle, wife of the deposed President. Though Mariela and her husband are hiding in separate locations in Panama, they communicate in writing. In an interview with TIME last week, the former First Lady insisted, "I want the United States to be ready to invade Panama if we ask for it. I don't want an invasion...
Soldiers came to Delvalle's house at 8 a.m. and were met at the door by Delvalle's wife, Mariela. While the soldiers were telling her they wanted to take Delvalle, the president escaped out a back door, according to U.S. officials in Washington...