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Avianca-Taca shake-up to affect 50000 passengers in Costa Rica
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica | Tue May 21, 2013 8:41pm EDT SAN JOSE, Costa Rica May 21 (Reuters) - Airline Avianca-Taca said on Tuesday that the cancellation of five routes to and from Costa Rica will affect some 50,000 passengers who will have to be re-routed or given refunds if they prefer. The cancelled routes between San Jose and Los Angeles, New York, Havana, Quito and Guayaquil account ...
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Court Throws Out Genocide Ruling Against Former Guatemala Dictator
thrown out , as the country’s high court ordered a former dictator’s case on charges of genocide return to a lower court. Gen. Efran Ros Montt was just less than two weeks ago convicted of committing genocide against his own people during his time in power. According to the charges against him, Rios Montt was aware of the slaughter of at least 1,771 Ixil Mayans during the ...
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Genocide Denial in Guatemala
May 21, 2013 Guatemala's Constitutional Court has overturned the Ros Montt guilty verdict of May 10th, setting the legal proceedings back to April 19th - after the evidence was presented but before Ros Montt was declared guilty. The 3 to 2 decision relies on a technicality brought into play when Ros Montt's lawyers walked out of the court leaving him temporarily without ...
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Mexican tycoon Slim seeks funding details of U.S. protest group
People protest holding masks printed with the face of Mexican telecommunications and retail tycoon Carlos Slim as he attends the Meeting of Latin American Businessmen at a hotel in Lima May 3, ...
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Guatemala ruling could keep ex-leader from prison
FILE - In this Friday, May 10, 2013 file photo, Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt wears headphones as he listens to the verdict in his genocide trial in Guatemala City. Guatemala's top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's and ordered his trial to resume. Constitutional Court secretary Martin Guzman says the trial ...
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AES supplies energy at Central Americas and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices
Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...
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Sen. Robert Menendez How to deal with the growing security crisis in Central America
During the last decade in countries like Brazil, Chile and other areas in Latin America, changing economic policies and innovative social inclusion programs are giving rise to economic growth built on exports and an increasingly prosperous middle class. But in Central America, a region of growing strategic importance to the United States, many countries face a bourgeoning security and ...
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One survivor of the civil war masacres represents the injustice suffered by millions
Almost three decades ago, a young boy, Ramiro Cristales, watched as his family was killed by the Guatemalan army during the most tragic and shameful time in the nation’s history, the brutal civil war that last several decades and would ultimately claim the lives of over 200,000 people – men, women and children. Now, Cristales plans to testify in a humanitarian case against one of the soldiers involved in the massacre that saw his family killed. He represents the unfulfilled justice for those whose remains are still buried in mass graves around the country.
From 1960 to 1996 Guatemala was torn apart by the longest, and one of the most brutal, civil wars in the history of Latin America. To this day, the country is still trying to recover from the weighty and far-reaching effects it had on the country. During the civil war, the dictatorship-leaning government used all forms of repression and power at its disposal to remain in power. Read more
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