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...been under intense pressure to end the year-old rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas, dispatched hundreds of troops and police to capture the leaders of the uprising. For the first time, Zedillo identified the elusive guerrilla commander, known as "Subcomandante Marcos," by his full name: Rafael Sebastian GuillEn Vicente...
...across Mexico, security forces were on the lookout for the mysterious rebel spokesman known as Subcomandante Marcos. Last week the Chiapas leader, who has always been masked in public appearances, was revealed by Zedillo to be Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente...
...billion in losses, equivalent to 16% of last year's GDP. Charges of financial irresponsibility, corruption and outright theft are flying. Arrest warrants have been issued for more than 100 people in connection with the collapses, and dozens of financiers are believed to have fled the country. President Rafael Caldera has charged that the banking system has been systematically looted by ``a den of thieves.'' The debacle makes a strong bid to be, in the words of Francisco Faraco, a respected financial analyst in Caracas, ``the world's biggest financial crisis of the 20th century...
...latest youth center last week in Cracow, Poland. ``Many did not even know five years ago that they were Jewish.'' In Budapest the 118-year-old Rabbinical Seminary, the only one in Eastern Europe, is training a new generation of religious leaders for Hungary. One young believer is student Rafael Rohrig, 27, who says he came from an orthodox family--orthodox communist, that is. ``It wasn't until I traveled to America and Israel that I met Jews who dedicated their lives to God,'' he says. ``That was something none of us had seen in Hungary. We had to leave...
...their children, to leave is to break faith with the revolution. "Tell my son I'm fine," says Teodomira Rodriguez, standing in the doorway of her small pensioner's apartment in the Vedado section of Havana. The 62-year-old widow said goodbye to her two sons last month: Rafael, 34, died at sea; Pedro, 32, survived but was hospitalized in Miami with dehydration and blisters after six days afloat. "They left because of the economic problems," she says...