Word: piedras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countryside the fear seems palpable. In Piedra Labrada, a village in Cuscatlan, guardsmen opposed a meeting to form an agricultural cooperative. The get-together took place anyway. The next morning, an 18-year-old boy who had attended was found dead. Only three people turned out for the next meeting. Human rights groups focus on atrocities by the armed forces, but the F.M.L.N. is also guilty of abuses. In April two men in the village of La Periquera were executed by the guerrillas for failing to pay a "war tax." In another town, the F.M.L.N. announced it would execute...
Hasenfus and his wife had a candlelight dinner at the home of U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala Alberto M. Piedra where they spent the night, the Advocate newspaper of Stamford, Conn., reported yesterday...
...Robinson vs. Jake La-Motta. In one corner, Sugar Ray Leonard, 24, the World Boxing Council welterweight champion, a virtuoso boxer with stunningly swift hands and a made-for-television smile. In the other corner, Roberto Duran, 29, the former lightweight titlist, a Panama City ruffian with manos de piedra (hands of stone) and a menacing countenance...
...same time an attempt to substitute other values for those of democratic, bourgeois society." His best-known works include El Laberinto de la Soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude), an essay on Mexican character described by Irving Howe as "a central text of our time" and long metaphysical poems like Piedra de sol (Sun Stone) and Blanco...