Word: slummed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troubles began." A week after the 1991 coup, five men with machine guns came to his house and accused him of conspiring to condemn the now dead Lafontant. After two years' hiding in the countryside, he returned to organize a self-defense brigade in the capital. Soldiers encircled the slum and opened fire. He escaped and in desperation applied for refugee status in the U.S. In January an attache spotted Pierre near the processing center and opened fire, killing a friend. Since then, Pierre moves every two weeks. "I cannot live like this much longer," he says...
Meanwhile, clandestine resistance cells are already operational in Carrefour, the vast slum in the capital city that remains a principal bastion of support for the exiled President. Plans have been made to place burning cars at key intersections, blocking any moves by the military to defend itself. Angry Haitians like 30-year-old Pierre, whose right arm is scarred and twisted from a fight with the police, are wooing restive elements of the army to join them when the U.S. helicopters come. Says he: "We sleep with one eye toward...
Horrific as the pictures are, observers for the U.N. and the Organization of American States returned from Gonaives last week with even grimmer detail. In the predawn hours of April 22, they reported, soldiers and paramilitary gunmen surrounded Raboteau, a slum where Aristide support runs strong, and shot down men, women and children as they fled toward the sea and their fishing boats. Because many bodies were lost at sea, the observers could not give an exact death toll, but witnesses claimed that at least 28 people had died. Soldiers hastily buried some victims in shallow graves that were soon...
...conglomerate, in cooperation with the U.S.-owned QVC, broadcasts a home- shopping channel produced in Tijuana. People who never before had a car or a credit card now have both. The working-class suburb of Iztapalapa boasts a McDonald's and a Wal-Mart superstore, while the Mexico City slum Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl houses enough VCRS to support a branch of Blockbuster Video...
...Marley, a poor Jamaican from Kingston's Trenchtown slum, who brought reggae to international prominence in the '70s with his albums Catch a Fire, Rastaman Vibration and Exodus. An outspoken champion of racial equality and social justice, Marley was also a tireless promoter of Rastafarianism, the pro-African sect whose followers grow their hair into long, matted dreadlocks and smoke marijuana, or ganja, as part of a religious rite...