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...classic Maya empire, the Maya themselves are all around them. An estimated 1.2 million Maya still live in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, and nearly 5 million more are spread throughout the Yucatan Peninsula and the cities and rural farm communities of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Ethnically, they are derived from the same people who created the most exalted culture in Mesoamerica. Yet the thousands of visitors who come each year to admire the imposing temples of Palenque might be shocked to know the ignominious fate of the Maya's modern-day descendants...
Sandra M. Canas came to Cambridge from El Salvador when her son Miguel was four years...
...choosing Thomas Pickering to be ambassador to Russia, President Clinton signaled the priority he gives to dealing with Moscow. Few diplomats are as qualified to take on a tough post: Pickering has served as ambassador to Israel and El Salvador...
...cease-fire was declared, but it is doing so in Bosnia. In Somalia the Security Council took the unprecedented step of approving the current U.S. military intervention to provide protection for food distribution, even though the U.N. had received no official invitation. When the two sides in El Salvador's civil war could not agree on a land-distribution plan that was crucial to a peace accord, the U.N. proposed its own scheme. In Cambodia the U.N. has a broader -- and, many say, more trying -- charge than in any other operation it has mounted...
Barnes claimed to have worked at various times for the CIA, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration. In April 1982, he said U.S. advisers in El Salvador were poisoning streams and experimenting with chemical warfare. Two years later, he surfaced in the case of Ronald Rewald, a Hawaiian banker who was in jail at the time facing fraud charges in connection with the collapse of his investment firm. Rewald had also provided cover for the CIA, and said the agency had engineered his troubles. In September 1984, ABC News reported Barnes' claim that the CIA helped...