Word: salvador
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...also interesting to ponder why the United States has become so vocal about violations of international law. Just a decade ago, anyone who spoke about the thousands of peasants, students, nuns and priests who were being massacred in E1 Salvador was branded a communist. The United States never called an emergency session of the United Nations when martyrs in E1 Salvador were tortured and killed...
Nixon and Kissinger made no secret of their dislike of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Through economic pressure and CIA activities, this government was overthrown, and the right-wing dictator, Pinochet, was brought to power. Thousands of students, intellectuals, union organizers and, in general, people who tried to help the poor were arrested, tortured and killed. Watergate, which receives nearly all the publicity, is really a small incident in comparison to these events...
...Berenson's real passion was always to help the downtrodden; as a teenager she donated time to a soup kitchen. In 1989 she dropped out of M.I.T. and went to work with the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, a leftist group that opposed U.S. military aid to the right-wing Salvadoran government. She worked for cispes in New York City and Washington before pulling up stakes in 1991 and moving to Central America, where she spent time in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama. During occasional visits home to the U.S., she told friends she worked...
...best seller in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. It has brought a new audience to the author, 52, who wrote her first novel, The House of the Spirits, at 40, when she was an exile in Venezuela after the murder of her cousin, former Chilean President Salvador Allende. That novel, in the magical realist style of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was made into a 1994 film with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. Altogether, Allende's four novels and a short-story collection have sold an estimated 10 million copies worldwide. Paula is her first nonfiction work--a book, she says...
...public was outraged at the Congressmen, and juries ultimately convicted seven of them, but Congress was upset with the FBI and launched an inquiry into the bureau's Abscam investigation. And then the FBI got into trouble for investigating CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), a group it believed was supporting leftist rebels in that country contrary to the U.S. backing of the legitimate government...