Word: salvador
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...couple of days," she says, "you're able to make a small difference." Other tour operators stress that voluntourism really does have lasting impact because, despite rapid turnover among individual volunteers, trip organizers develop long-term relationships with community partners. On one of her first group trips to El Salvador in 2001, explains Nancy Rivard, who founded Airline Ambassadors to expand on relief work she began as a flight attendant for American Airlines, volunteers helped 150 families acquire land and rebuild homes devastated by earthquakes. They were scheduled to open a vocational-training center near those homes during the last...
...More recently, Ivory Coast's heroic exploits at the World Cup and African Cup of Nations have helped promote the peace process that has brought that country's civil war to a close. Then again, soccer has also been known to reinforce conflicts - a brief war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 was triggered by events at a soccer match between the two countries, while Croatian nationalists still mark the start of their war with Serbia not from the day the first shots were fired, but from a violent confrontation at a May 1990 match between the Croatia-based...
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...birth registration to avoid deportation to Italy. Fully aware that Marcello was not a Guatemalan, Kennedy in 1961 nevertheless had Immigration agents hustle him aboard a 78-seat jet as its lone passenger and deposit him in Guatemala City. Marcello and his American lawyer were later flown to El Salvador, where soldiers dumped the two expensively dressed men in the mountains. Marcello claimed he fainted three times and broke several ribs before finding his way to a small airport. Slipping secretly back into New Orleans, he vowed revenge against the Kennedys...
...watching it collapse. Another Day of Life is a harrowing account of the 1970s Angolan civil war; The Shadow of the Sun contains the best of the author's Africa reporting; and The Soccer War recounts, among other idiocies, the lethal, football-inflamed 1969 spat between Honduras and El Salvador...