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Mexican soldiers move in to protect towns under siege by Knights Templar drug cartel
Residents greet Mexican army soldiers as they enter the town of La Ruana, Michoacan, Mexico, Monday, May 20, 2013. Residents of western Mexico towns who endured months besieged by a drug cartel are cheering the arrival of hundreds of Mexican army troops. A growing number of people in the state of Michoacan have taken up arms to defend their villages against drug gangs, a vigilante movement born ...
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Trial of Ex-Dictator of Guatemala May Have to Restart
the genocide verdict against a former dictator, Gen. Efran Ros Montt, lawyers on both sides of the case said Tuesday that his entire trial would probably have to be ...
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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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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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