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...Sandinista historian Aldo Diaz Lacayo says the image of Sandino is intimately linked to the Nicaraguan identity because "there is no one greater who has fought in the defense of national sovereignty and against foreign intervention." A Nicaraguan peasant who led guerrilla raids against the U.S. military occupation of Nicaragua in from 1927-1932, Sandino has been elevated in the national mythology to superhuman status, and his writings are revered as scripture among Sandinistas - and just as with scripture, virtually everyone can find things in Sandino's writings to reinforce their own political positions. Diaz Lacayo notes that even...
...Bulacan, Burgos began working with a peasant activist group, training farmers in organic techniques and giving political seminars. The government has accused the group of supporting the New People's Army (NPA), a Communist insurgency that has festered for more than three decades in the country's impoverished hinterland. But the peasant group's leader, Joseph Canlas, says that neither Burgos nor his group was connected with the insurgents. Burgos certainly had deeply felt leftist sympathies. Yet even his own family cannot say for certain whether he was a mere fellow traveler or an active NPA supporter. On occasion...
...politically motivated killings says that 141 activists have been murdered since 2001, when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo came to power. All but a handful of those cases remain unsolved. Karapatan, a Philippine human-rights group, estimates a much bloodier tally: 902 murdered labor leaders, journalists, local politicians, priests, and peasant organizers. Dozens more activists have vanished. In June 2006, less than a year before Jonas Burgos was snatched, two young female organizers from the University of the Philippines were abducted at gunpoint in Bulacan...
Leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) since it was formed in 1964, Pedro Antonio Marin was known to his comrades-in-arms by his nom de guerre, Manuel Marulanda--or by the nickname Tirofijo, "Sureshot," which he earned for his marksmanship. The son of a peasant farmer, and a rebel fighter since his teens, Marulanda lived much of his life in Colombia's mountains and jungles. There, despite having only a sixth-grade education, he directed FARC's antigovernment operations, kidnapping and, later, drug trafficking. He was believed...
...Pacific coast, Sinaloa is a crucial battleground in President Felipe Calderon's war on drug cartels - a campaign that the Bush Administration seeks to back with $1.4 billion in cash and equipment. It is in Sinaloa's arid mountains that Mexico's drug trade was born, with peasant farmers first growing opium poppies - the raw ingredient for heroin - back in the 1940s. These pioneers developed violent organized crime structures that later took over the business of supplying marijuana, cocaine and then crystal meth to hungry American consumers - a market worth an estimated $30 billion to the Mexican crime families...