Word: plazas
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...Santo Domingo, a plaza that has been taken over by protesters, three haunting "ofrendas" were lit the previous evening. Made of flowers and seeds, food and drink, these offerings are set out for the visiting, hungry dead. These three particular ofrendas have been erected to the memory of an American, Bradley Will, the freelance documentary filmmaker shot dead on Friday as he recorded a clash between protesters and pro-government vigilantes. Further away, on the street called Cal y Canto, by a barricade, there is a more shocking ofrenda to Will's memory: one adorned with a photograph...
...Gurr's Footscray neighborhood, in the city's western suburbs, where the factory whistles were silenced long ago. The place, now teeming with Vietnamese and African eateries, looks lively and exotic. But hard and desperate, too. A woman scuttles past, foraging in planter pots in the plaza. As soon as Gurr realizes she is collecting cigarette butts from which a few puffs might be salvaged, he hurries after her. She accepts all the smokes he has left...
...crisis over the July presidential election, in which conservative Felipe Calderon of Fox's National Action Party (PAN) defeated the PRD's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by less than 1% of the vote. Lopez Obrador cried fraud, and tens of thousands of his backers occupied Mexico City's main plaza and thoroughfare for months in protest. But in recent weeks the Mexico City demonstrations had died down, and last week even the Oaxaca teachers seemed ready to go back to work...
...Almeida, a soft-spoken woman who still marches every Thursday afternoon in front of the Presidential Palace with other members of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group demanding justice for the "disappeared," believes Lopez's disappearance was designed to dissuade others from testifying against the torturers. "Those who abducted Lopez know that the conviction of Etchecolatz is just the preview of more trials," she says. "They feel the noose tightening around their necks and are scared...
...indescribable," gushed New Orleans East resident Demetrius Smith, as a throng spilled onto the Superdome plaza after the game, whooping and chanting. "It's like you lost everything, and now you're finally getting it back, bit by bit." Smith, whose family temporarily relocated to Arkansas after the storm, said Monday's victory was "part of the rehabilitation" of New Orleans. "These are strong people," he said. "Don't underestimate the will of Louisiana people...