Word: mireya
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...however, and in 1985, while Posada was being tried in a civilian criminal court, he escaped disguised as a priest. Posada and three other Cuban exiles were convicted in 2000 of conspiring to kill Fidel Castro during a summit in Panama. But four years later, inexplicably, then Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned the four men. (The Bush Administration denied that it had pressured her as a favor to Miami's politically powerful exile community...
...important, Amandi foresees Obama getting 65% of the under-40 Cuban-American vote in Miami, underscoring the generational divide unfolding in that community. Hialeah, a once predominantly Cuban exile enclave adjoining Miami that today has a growing non-Cuban Latino population, seemed a microcosm of Amandi's findings today. Mireya Concepcion, 57, a Cuban-born cosmetologist who fled Castro's revolution in 1969, walked out of the polling station at the Salvation Army shelter in Hialeah late this afternoon and made it clear she'd voted for McCain. "I worry that Obama is a communist," she said. "I prefer...
...indicate, he has been accused of taking part in terrorist activities like the 1976 Cuban airline bombing and a conspiracy to assassinate Castro in Panama in 2000. Posada and three other men were convicted and imprisoned for the assassination plot, but were pardoned in 2005 by then Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso...
...myth’ from things like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the sense that this is some kind of primitive treatment/punishment rather than a medical procedure that is very effective and often has fewer side effects than medication.” Mireya Nadal-Vicens, a tutor in Mather House and psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital who performs ECT says “Psychiatrists don’t often talk about it because people consider it a brutal treatment, but people don’t understand that the treatments are not painful...
...million in a partnership with about 450 miners, providing them with training, equipment like ventilators and chain saws--and legal status. An additional 140 are being brought in. "If it weren't for [Hecla], we'd still be out there with our picks and shovels getting nowhere," says Mireya Cobarrubia, 42, a mining veteran. Says local Hecla manager Jos Pino: "It isn't a problem as long as things are organized correctly." But as the conflict over Las Cristinas shows, organization in Venezuela's mining industry can be as rare as gold...