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...murder shocked Guatemala, but the shock has become familiar. According to the Commission for Human Rights in Central America, since 1965 about 38,000 Guatemalans have been slain in political violence or have disappeared. The past four weeks alone have seen nearly 100 killings, some at the hands of leftist guerrillas, the overwhelming majority by government security forces and right-wing death squads. The upsurge in violence comes as the country is beginning to prepare for November elections that are expected to bring to power Guatemala's first nonmilitary government in two decades. The elections are part of a campaign...
...just negotiated a deal with China limiting exports to the E.U. until 2008. Won't there always be the risk that some industrial sector will become vulnerable to cheap foreign imports? I've made it clear that this is a transitional arrangement to deal with the economic shock of unwinding protection in the textiles trade. I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one. China is perfectly entitled to its liberalization. My preference was to seek a lasting agreement because the importance of our relationship demands it. This is a strong signal...
...criticized for its continued failings? Probably both. According to human-rights monitor John Kamm, some 3,000 people are sentenced for nonviolent political and religious offenses every year. And yet, China's people have gained room to maneuver, especially in pursuit of their livelihood. That has set off shock waves--huge income disparities and corruption--that could threaten party control. By official accounts, there were 58,000 protests in 2003, as workers, peasants and even stock-market investors fought everything from corruption to overtaxation. China can't stop the outbursts, but it won't let anyone use those grievances...
...Iraq. The canvases - including Abu Ghraib 43, which shows a bruised, hooded detainee tied to the bars of his cell - will be shown publicly for the first time in Rome, and depict agonized, bloodied prisoners being tortured and bound by U.S. military guards. Botero says he was driven by shock at the prisoners' accounts, which haunted him for months. Yet some question even that. "It seems a willed attempt by a comedian to do tragedy," says Robert Storr, former senior curator of paintings at moma and now a professor at New York University...
...Bart Simpson would say, that joke is funny for so many reasons. It's also all in the telling, so it plays on comics' need to earn approval through lurid pirouettes of a lunatic imagination. And having spent all its shock value in the setup, it offers a punch line of cheerful poignancy. This family will do anything to be in show...