Word: orellana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oscar Orellana Garcia, a representative of the human rights arm of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)--which has fought a civil war in El Salvador throughout this decade--said U.S. support should be restricted to humanitarian aid and conditional upon the resolution of the country's political turmoil...
Immigrants' children are sometimes agonizingly aware of the traits that mark them as foreign. Among these: their names. Jorge Orellana, 8, the son of immigrants from El Salvador, says classmates in a Chicago school taunted him with the words "Mexican kid." He now introduces himself as George. Son Nguyen's 16-year-old brother asks new acquaintances whether they want "my American or Vietnamese name." He is Tien to his family, Tim to others...
...enforcement officials in Bolivia. Yet to some of his countrymen, Roberto Suarez Gomez, 53, sometimes known as the King of Cocaine, is a folk hero, portraying himself as a modern Robin Hood to Bolivians disillusioned by years of official corruption. In their book, Bolivia: Coca Cocaina, Authors Amado Canelas Orellana and Juan Carlos Canelas Zannier say that Suarez's popularity springs from the fact that his wealth originated "in the depravity of the Yanquis (drug abuse in the U.S.) and not in the robbing of the coffers of the state...