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The Intercept
December 14, 2017
They are fleeing poverty, civil war, jihadist insurgency, and famine, and way stations in Mexico like Mama Africa are merely a pause along an unbelievable route to the most unlikely of destinations: the ... African migrants arrive at the border between Guatemala and Mexico during the summer of 2016.
WBUR
December 14, 2017
Authorities in Guatemala say they are waiting for Samayoa with an arrest warrant in connection with crimes committed during the armed conflict. Court records ... The Providence woman is an indigenous Mayan, part of a group that suffered what is widely seen as a genocide in the early 1980s. For someÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
December 8, 2017
Maria Jose Pelen, 7, poses for a portrait dressed as an angel in honor of the festivities celebrating the town's patron saint, the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala, Thursday Dec. 7, 2017. The official feast day of the Immaculate Conception is Dec. 8. In Ciudad Vieja the festivities ...
Miami Herald (blog)
December 8, 2017
At a time when the United States should be going out of its way to stop a dangerous regression toward dictatorships in Latin America, the Trump administration — which to its credit has denounced the power grabs by the leftist leaders of Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua — should be equally critical of the ...
KTVQ Billings News
December 5, 2017
January 23, 2006 - Rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kill eight peacekeepers from Guatemala. June 24, 2007 - Six UN ... May 8, 2017 - Five peacekeepers are killed overnight in the Central African Republic near the town of Bangassou by a Christian rebel group. August 14, 2017 - A total of ...
The Verge
December 5, 2017
On May 15th, 1984, Felix Estrada went on a morning run near the University of San Carlos in Guatemala City, just as he did every day. His brother Salomon, who he shared a room with, heard him come back, shower, get dressed, and leave again at 6:30AM. At first, it seemed like any other morning.
Center for Research on Globalization
December 1, 2017
Che was one of the principal leaders of the rebel army, second-in-command to Fidel Castro who was the indisputable and undisputed leader of the ... He was aware that he would risk his life at every moment, given the dangers involved in a guerrilla war against an enemy immensely superior in number.
New York Times (blog)
November 29, 2017
But I was relatively new to the daily terror tactics of Central America where U.S.-backed troops used fear and violence to contain a growing left-wing insurgency. But unlike in El Salvador, where the United States openly provided military advisers and equipment, American support for Guatemala's military ...
HuffPost
November 28, 2017
Che was one of the principal leaders of the rebel army, second-in-command to Fidel Castro who was the indisputable and undisputed leader of the July 26 ... Due to Che's rather excessive temerity, Fidel decided to entrust him with responsibility for the group on the condition that he himself no longerÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 27, 2017
Earlier in the day, the Nobel Women's Initiative, a group of Nobel peace laureates, had urged the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen to end ... The letter was signed by Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland, Rigoberta Menchu Tum of Guatemala, Jody Williams of the United States, Shirin EbadiÃÂ ...
Amandala
November 17, 2017
As historian Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens has noted, “a single incident involving a small group of clergy and guerrillas became a justification to ... The Guatemalan claim/threat did not reach a sustained fever pitch in Belize until the one Ydigoras Fuentes became President of Guatemala in 1958, and around ...
Equal Times
October 31, 2017
Two development models are at odds in rural Guatemala: the advance ... but the endemic inequality that led to the rise of the guerrilla was left ...
NPR
October 29, 2017
Armed guerrilla forces and paramilitary groups control certain routes in the ... that she, her brother and her son couldn't keep up with the group.
Lincoln Journal Star
October 21, 2017
In the case of a recent trip to Guatemala, good timing helped my wife, Jane, and ... the great work of American nongovernmental organization (NGO) Common Hope ... It seems a group of Guatemalan legislators had voted to exempt ... the government and several leftist rebel groups signed peace accords.
Yahoo Singapore News
October 20, 2017
Thanks, mom, says Guatemala indigenous leader up for rights prize ... rightwing governments and military regimes fought leftist rebels backed by the rural ... Her organization was founded in 2007 to counter the effects of a free ... In June, Chavez left for Spain after gunmen shot at members of her group who ...
KTVQ Billings News
October 5, 2017
Timeline:1993 - At least 16 peacekeepers are killed in Cambodia, allegedly by Khmer Rouge guerrillas. ... January 23, 2006 - Rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kill eight peacekeepers from Guatemala. ... in the Central African Republic near the town of Bangassou by a Christian rebel group.
SouthFlorida.com
October 2, 2017
Chefs for the Keys, a new group formed to help Keys restaurant and ... in Boca Raton and Islamorada), Rebel House of Boca Raton, Kapow! ... (Argentina-Costa Rica), Mirciny Moliviatis (Guatemala) and Xavier Torres (Miami).
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Martin Rapaport is chairman of Rapaport Group, an organization of diamond ... Rebels would buy weapons with earnings from diamond sales.
CBC.ca
December 31, 1999
My best friend from the group home, Cathy, a boy from work and I rented a unit. ... having to be aware that at any moment the army/rebels could swoop down ... countries including Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile and El Salvador.
Times Higher Education (THE)
December 31, 1999
The Stasi, he says, “are one group of those responsible for repression, ... Doyle has not yet heard of any public objection in Guatemala to the free ... “came out” as former members of armed guerrilla groups after Guatemala's ...
Vermont Public Radio
December 31, 1999
Guatemalan citizens carry an empty coffin in front of Guatemala's National Palace. ... Protest organizers in Guatemala City say expatriate Guatemalans are .... Wer is with the civil society group Justicia Ya (Justice Now) which ... In a 36-year-conflict between the government and guerrillas that ended in 1996.
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
“In Guatemala, forced disappearances consisted in a systematic practice ... guerrillas — including the main rebel group, the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ... Unity organization or URNG — as well as their suspected sympathizers.
GeekWire
August 30, 2017
She takes most of her photos on a Canon Rebel T5, and on Tuesday ... in Seattle and we're helping the people in Guatemala who made these.
National Geographic Australia
August 29, 2017
... Usumacinta River into Guatemala from Mexico's southernmost state, ... in the sun read “Zapatista” in support of the rebel group that stands forÃÂ ...
Standard-Examiner
August 28, 2017
The second-largest group is simply labeled as “Spanish,” “Spaniard,” or “Spanish-American. ... Rufino Bocel, originally from Guatemala and now living in ... Rebels once asked, at gunpoint, for 5,000 pairs of shoes from hisÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
August 10, 2017
The organization's mission, to "embody Christian principles to help families and .... International efforts center on providing clean water in Guatemala. ... when a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire.
Common Dreams
August 8, 2017
Over the next four decades, U.S,-backed right-wing Guatemalan regimes killed ... for peasants and workers in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. .... Sunni Yemen government's war on the Houthi rebels and their rival government. ... the rebel Shiite-Muslim Houthi forces and Houthi government in theÃÂ ...
WGNO
August 8, 2017
The Guatemalan native had been trying to correct his immigration status since ... verbally tell immigration officials he was from Mexico instead of Guatemala, ... Carias says he was kidnapped by Guatemalan guerillas when he was 7 ... Zach Hoover, a member of the religious grass-roots group PICO NationalÃÂ ...
FRANCE 24
August 8, 2017
Venezuela hunts rebels behind military base attack ... on Monday hunting an ex-officer and a lieutenant who led uniformed rebels on a weekend ... "This group was not acting for ideals or nationalist principles. ... Questions were being asked, however, whether lower ranks in Venezuela's military could rebel.
Christian Science Monitor
July 25, 2017
... following the arrests last week of a group of human rights activists, including a ... was arrested for allegedly spying and aiding Kurdish rebels.
Insightcrime.org
May 31, 2017
Military Commander's Firing Highlights Failures in Combating Paraguay Rebels ... Paraguay's task force targeting the EPP guerrilla group has been ... four years, a sign of the country's failure to defeat the small rebel group and a ... most powerful criminal organization, the First Capital Command (PrimeiroÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
April 14, 2017
The unimaginable horrors of the Guatemalan civil war can be seen through what ... Until one fateful night, Dos Erres was a typical village in Guatemala. ... weapons for local guerilla fighters, government-backed commandos stormed the ... A peace accord between the Guatemalan military and the rebels wasÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
February 15, 2017
(Nairobi) – A rebel group in the Central African Republic executed at ... In the town of Bakala, rebels from the Union for Peace in the CentralÃÂ ...
Jamaica Observer
December 31, 1999
1995: The “AIDS gang”, a group of bank robbers who cannot be jailed ... 1996: Chechen rebels push back Russian armoured columns trying toÃÂ ...
Philippine Star
March 19, 2017
It may seem surprising that Vice President Leni Robredo should use the UN for attacks against her own country and government. On the contrary it was predictable.
Yahoo7 News
March 19, 2017
Guatemala City (AFP) - Guatemala on Saturday asked Interpol to be on the lookout for a lawmaker accused of war crimes dating back to its 1960-1996 civil war.
660 News
March 15, 2017
MADRID - Former Guatemalan interior minister Carlos Vielmann has been absolved by a Spanish court in a high-profile case of summary executions of inmates a decade ago.
Morocco World News
March 14, 2017
This permutation produced an effective group of Polisario representatives that rode the Castro diplomacy wave into several key capitals in Latin America opening offices and "embassies".
Nasdaq
March 10, 2017
(Repeats story first published late on Thursday) By Sofia MenchuGUATEMALA CITY, March 9 (Reuters) - The blaze that killed 34 girls and maimed others at an overcrowded Guatemalan shelter for abused teens broke out in a tiny room they were locked in to ...
FRANCE 24
March 10, 2017
The blaze that killed at least 34 girls at an overcrowded Guatemalan shelter for abused teens broke out in a tiny room in which they may have been locked in to control them after a riot at the centre, authorities and witnesses said on Thursday.
Castanet.net
March 8, 2017
The chief of NBC News has a message for President Donald Trump: We're not going to be intimidated. NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack said on Tuesday that the president's attacks on some media outlets won't deter his organization from doing its job.
Castanet.net
March 8, 2017
Gunmen wearing white lab coats stormed a military hospital in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. The attack on ... NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack said on ...
Castanet.net
March 8, 2017
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was in critical condition and sedated in a hospital's intensive care unit Wednesday after undergoing two brain surgeries.
Castanet.net
March 8, 2017
Gunmen wearing white lab coats stormed a military hospital in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. The attack on the 400-bed military facility, located near ...
Cabrini College Loquitur
March 8, 2017
After separating from my husband, I ended up in Guatemala City and there I joined another group that worked on building women's self-esteem and also to know their value, think about ways in which we could be self-sufficient.
Human Rights Watch
March 8, 2017
But that all changed the day the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab brought the war to his classroom. A lecture theatre at the ... Students I spoke with said that the group had raised its flag over their schools and stored hand grenades and guns inside ...
Jacobin magazine
March 7, 2017
Imagine the Central American isthmus at the dawn of the twentieth century. In the Guatemalan highlands, a peculiar hybrid of American-style plantation slavery and feudal landlordism persisted: indigenous workers toiled on massive coffee farms for the ...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 6, 2017
Aguinaldo was named the President of the newly established government who led Philippine forces against Spain and then went on to fight the U.S.
Rudaw
March 5, 2017
The opportunity was lost "for the simple fact that the YPG has accepted the help of the PKK, considered a terrorist organization in many countries. The YPG has also accepted the help of the regime of Bashar Assad. These choices have separated us from ...
Irish Independent
March 4, 2017
FOR almost two months, Candido Zaldivar Flores (70) and his wife Elvia Murcia de Zaldivar (65) have lived in a makeshift hut with their two children, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter at the back of the Iglesia Evangelica y Reformada church inÃÂ ...
