Word: rogelio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...challenge the Anglo establishment. But last week, as the school board was preparing to scrap the city's 25-year-old bilingual-education program, 400 Latino families called a three-day strike, boycotting schools and setting up an alternative academy in a community center. At a boisterous public hearing, Rogelio Trujillo, 55, a burly Mexican-born gardener, argued for instruction in Spanish as a matter of ancestral right in a state once ruled by Mexico and Spain: "We didn't come from France, England or Russia. We were here already...
...next 21Ú2 hours, the fake soldiers made Ipil a hell on earth. They gunned down men, women and children, plundered the town's seven banks and took money from shops. "They were killing people like they do this every day," said a survivor, Loyita de los Reyes. Rogelio Villafuerte, a public-works engineer, said, "They came to town ready to start a war." The 200 or so gunmen ended the carnage around 3 p.m., then sauntered out of town, taking along 13 hostages, including a group of women wearing uniforms from Gerry's department store. Left behind were...
...Defense and Promotion of Human Rights and international groups like Americas Watch document a rise in the number of arbitrary detentions, disappearances and political assassinations. Even those who endorse Salinas' economic program often fault his political foot dragging. "If you begin to reform, you should reform thoroughly," says Rogelio Ramirez de la O, a private-sector economist. "That should be called 'the Gorbachev lesson.' " Unfazed by such criticism, Salinas argues that political and economic reform cannot be undertaken simultaneously. "Anyone who brings about changes over a wide number of fronts has to be able to control them," he says...