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...inept and often corrupt law-enforcement and justice system has left 98 percent of cases unsolved, prompting some citizens to take the law into their own hands. On Thursday, for example, an angry mob in the small town of San Juan Sacatepequez captured and burned alive three teenagers suspected of belonging to a street gang. Perez Molina has built support by promising to put more soldiers on the streets to fight crime, and to use the death penalty more frequently. He also supports temporarily suspending some constitutional rights in crime-ridden areas, a tactic used several times last year...
...that made the British Empire. But like the empire itself, Hartlepool has since withered, and over the past century it has welcomed any work that could help replace the dockyard's disappearing jobs. Steel refineries, petrochemical plants, scrap yards, landfills, an incinerator and a nuclear power plant border the town of nearly 90,000. But in 2003, when four rusting U.S. Navy vessels arrived at a local dock to be scrapped, for many locals it was the last straw. "We are not the world's dustbin," read one of the placards borne by a horde of angry protesters who greeted...
...After dark, he sometimes drives a few miles into the center of Hartlepool for dinner, where a marina built by the council is bolstered by two new call centers and a tourist attraction. The pride of the town is now HMS Trincomalee, a restored 1817 warship, just like the ones Hartlepool was once famous for building, another ghost ship in a town haunted by them...
...Joaquina Frias, the president's 73-year-old aunt, sits on the porch of her small house in the sweltering heat in Sabaneta, the Barinas town where Hugo Chavez was born. When Hugo was a child, she says, he told other children that he would become President, and when he did he would fix a broken water fountain in front of their school. Others, like childhood friend and neighbor Flor Figueredo, don't recall Chavez showing much political ambition back then. Except once. "He made a comment that with there being so much oil in Venezuela, look...
...Hugo's mother, Elena, sits in her small office at the children's foundation she runs, surrounded by a pictures and a wooden bust of Hugo. On her desk is a piece of paper she says she reads every day, titled, "Messages from Jesus." Mrs. Chavez, known across town as DoÓa Elena, wears plenty of makeup, a white blouse with black polka dots and her hair in a bun. Her husband, the governor, is preparing for a trip to Cuba, she says, but she would stay home because neither she, nor her two Maltese dogs, liked to travel...