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» The block where 3 missing women found a friendly but careful neighbourhood ... - Windsor Star
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The block where 3 missing women found a friendly but careful neighbourhood ... Windsor Star It's considered a decent place to live in this poor, largely Puerto Rican section of Cleveland's west side, where stores sell used computer..

» Archbishop of Puerto Rico, Roberto Gonzlez ... - Vatican Crimes
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SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO -- Roberto Gonzlez Nieves, archbishop of Puerto Rico , in these past few days, the Vatican requested the resignation of this individual where he is strongly accused of concealing pedophile priests, ...

» Castro brothers: Ariel is a 'monster'; Cleveland kidnapping suspect should ... - Washington Times
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Washington Times Castro brothers: Ariel is a 'monster'; Cleveland kidnapping suspect should ... Washington Times Pedro and Onil Castro were taken into custody alongside Ariel Castro last week, and initial reports painted the three ..

» FONTOVA: The Castro-coddled cop killer - Washington Times
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Washington Times FONTOVA: The Castro-coddled cop killer Washington Times ... a member of the Puerto Rican terrorist group, Los Macheteros. All requests by U.S. authorities for these criminals ' extradition have been rebuffed, often che..

» With deportation pending, Yvette Martinez of Springfield fights to keep ... - MassLive.com
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With deportation pending, Yvette Martinez of Springfield fights to keep ... MassLive.com While she is a U.S. resident from Puerto Rico , he is a Honduran national who illegally entered the country in 2004. The couple met in 2008, ... Marti..

» Mercer: Finally, 10-year captives breathe free - Richmond Times Dispatch (blog)
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Mercer: Finally, 10-year captives breathe free Richmond Times Dispatch (blog) Neighbors in the close-knit Puerto Rican neighborhood saw Castro take a child to a playground but didn't ask about her. One man told The ... The National Cri..

» CORRECTED: Prime suspect in US kidnapping is Jekyll-and-Hyde figure - GlobalPost
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New York Daily News CORRECTED: Prime suspect in US kidnapping is Jekyll-and-Hyde figure GlobalPost Castro was the scion of a large family that had migrated after World War II from Yauco, a part of Puerto Rico famous for its coffee, to Clev..

» HSI Arrests Puerto Rican for Production of Child Pornography
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents and officers assigned to the Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force (PRCACTF) arrested a Pfizer ...

» HSI Arrests Puerto Rican for Production of Child Pornography
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On May 6, the Puerto Rico Police Department made a referral to HSI regarding an adult male who was engaging in sexually explicit conversations with a 16-year-old male identified as John Doe via Facebook. During those conversations ...

» HSI Arrests Puerto Rican for Production of Child Pornography - Latin American Herald Tribune
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Latin American Herald Tribune HSI Arrests Puerto Rican for Production of Child Pornography Latin American Herald Tribune SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) sp..

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Wabash College Class of '13: Measure Empathy, Not Earning Wabash College And he challenged his fellow graduates — and the administration of the College — to continue to pursue students like him, whose path to violence and crime was cle..

» Our Hunger for the Obscene Details - New Yorker (blog)
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New Yorker (blog) Our Hunger for the Obscene Details New Yorker (blog) Next, a look into the criminal record and biography of the suspect. (Meet Ariel Castro: member of a large Cleveland family with origins in Puerto Rico , negligent retir..

» 'If I knew, I would have reported it': Brothers of accused Cleveland kidnapper ... - New York Daily News
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New York Daily News 'If I knew, I would have reported it': Brothers of accused Cleveland kidnapper ... New York Daily News Despite their denials, the brothers said they believe they'll be haunted by the crimes for life. “The pe..

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This small series of waterfalls are just off road # 191 on the north side of the El Yunque rainforest. The water is clean and clear, you can stand under the waterfall and sit in the pools.

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More than 100 witnesses appearing in the trial told the court how army personnel raped, beat and murdered townspeople in the Mayan-dominated highlands

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MEDIDA VITAL PARA VIEQUES Y CULEBRA La visita del gobernador Alejandro García Padilla a la Isla Nena, en la que firmó una orden ejecutiva para reactivar la Oficina del Comisionado Especial para Vieques y Culebra, debe asumirse ahora como p..

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La visita del gobernador Alejandro García Padilla a la Isla Nena, en la que firmó una orden ejecutiva para reactivar la Oficina del Comisionado Especial para Vieques y Culebra, debe asumirse ahora como parte de un plan verificable de medidas que mitiguen el abandono en que ambas islas municipio han estado inmersas.

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NYT VIDEO: How a woman trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Bangladesh was able to survive for over two weeks before being rescued.

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How a woman trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Bangladesh was able to survive for over two weeks before being rescued.

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Quotation of the Day: "We are with you. We will not move out from this place without rescuing you." — Major M. M. Moazzem Hossain, a Bangladeshi rescuer, to Reshma, a woman who was freed from rubble 17 days after the collapse of a building that killed more than 1,000 people.

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Efraín Ríos Montt Found Guilty of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Guatemalan de facto dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was declared guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. After organizing and fighting in courts for years, Guatemala's Ixil Maya indigenous achieved justice.
The verdict was live-tweeted and streamed [es].
While Ríos Montt was declared guilty and sentenced to 80 years in prison, former Intelligence Director José Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez was declared innocent.
Rios Montt ruled Guatemala from March 1982 to August 1983 during the country's 36-year civil war. As Xeni Jardin explains in BoingBoing: “The 86-year-old former General and head of state was charged with the crimes over a counterinsurgency campaign in 1982-1983 that resulted in the deaths of 1,771 Maya Ixil.”

Rios Montt Genocide Trial Day 26. Photo by James Rodriguez of MiMundo.org, used with permission.

Guatemala's indigenous were severely impacted by the war; they lost land, houses, animals, crops, and had to live in hiding in the mountains. After the war the country offered little opportunities.
Today, the Ixil communities are among the poorest in the country, with up to 77% living in poverty [es]. In Guatemala, where up to 40% of the population is indigenous, eight out of 10 indigenous peoples are poor. Furthermore, racism impacts their education and employment opportunities.
In spite of their poverty, the survivors were not asking for reparations -they were asking for justice, as Mr. Benjamín Jerónimo, plaintiff of the genocide case, told the tribunal in the closing arguments of a very complex trial which Amnesty International summarized in ten facts:

Genocide was committed, crimes against humanity were committed and today, 100 witnesses came to tell the truth, to ask for justice for all that we suffered, publicly… We are not looking for vengeance, we are looking for a true peace with justice, with respect, with equality, with dignity, that is why we are here.

It takes more than ten hours to travel in public transport from the Ixil region to Guatemala City, where the trial took place. In spite of their modest income and the distance, members of the Ixil community were present in the courtroom every day, as photo records by James Rodriguez of MiMundo.org and the coverage by Xeni Jardin in Boing Boingshow. Xeni live tweeted the final verdict from the courtroom.

Picture by James Rodríguez, Mimundo.org used with permission.

A video explaining all the evidence leading to the charges was aired this week by PBS in the United States, generating debate about president Reagan's involvement. The article “The Final Battle: Rios Montt's Counterinsurgency Campaign: U.S. and Guatemalan Documents Describe the Strategy Behind Scorched Earth” by The National Security Archiveadds:

Ríos Montt's scorched earth tactics are documented in a collection of Guatemalan army records created in July and August 1982, connected to Operation Sofía — a series of counterinsurgency sweeps through the Ixil region to kill EGP combatants and destroy their “base of support” (the Maya Ixil population). The Operation Sofía documents were given to the National Security Archive in 2009 and the Archive in turn provided them as criminal evidence to the prosecutors in the genocide case.

The trial has been an example of open justice, with translation available for the Ixil peoples during the entire trial, unrestricted access to press and a strong interaction in social media.
Parallel to the debate in court, a conversation -a battle of ideas and facts- took place online.
Netizens used the hashtags #riosmontt, #genocidegt and #sihubogenocidio (“yes, it was genocide”), and there were livestreams here (audio), here (audio) and here.
There are also netizens who deny that there was a genocide, and they are using the hashtag #nohubogenocidio (“there was no genocide”) to share their views.
During the trial citizens all over the world took a pledge and shared a photo showing their support for justice.
International volunteers from NISGUA, Peace Brigades International, Collectif Guatemala and other NGOs worked and supported families of survivors during the trial. They also produced content in English and French to share with the world.
After thirty years, this landmark verdict materializing the spirit of the Genocide Convention and the enforcement ofcrimes against humanity is an insurance for each and every human being, as it sets a precedent for current conflicts around the world. It is a ray of hope for entire villages labelled as “the enemy” in Syria, for the suffering of the Rohingyain Myanmar, and for all the conflicts to come.
Furthermore, it also marks a new beginning for an inclusive Guatemala, embracing and learning from the values and differences of 24 nations, starting with the lessons of courage, patience and non-violent struggle for justice taught by the Ixil. As Salvadoran digital journal El Faro said, the Ixil peoples already achieved a victory [es].

Photo via @xeni: “Juana Sanchez Toma, Ixil rape victim whom we interviewed for @newshour. ‘I dreamed of justice. And now here it is.'”

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Monica Puig: Puerto Rico's Rising Tennis Star - Latinos Post

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Monica Puig: Puerto Rico's Rising Tennis Star
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Now take a young player from an Island with a short history in the game and one major player of note, and you can appreciate how far Monica Puig, from Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, has come. As of May 6, 2013, Monica is currently ranked 88th in the world.

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Born and raised to Puerto Rican parents in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, Gutierrez endured his own sense of fear and loss when, after his freshman year in high school, his parents retired and moved the family to a small mountain barrio in Puerto ...

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The mighty Arecibo Radio Observatory is one of the most powerful radio telescopes ever built - it's certainly the larger single aperture radio telescope on Earth, nestled into a natural sinkhole in Puerto Rico.

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History was made in October when active professional featherweight boxer <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/orlando-cruz-comes-out-gay_n_1939204.html">Orlando Cruz of Puerto Rico came out</a>. He said in a USA Today article, "I've ...

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Puerto Rico's heavily indebted state-owned water and sewer authority announced that it is cutting off service to customers who don't pay their bills, including the municipal government of Arecibo.

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Puerto Rico to Cut Off Water to Non-payers

Puerto Rico's heavily indebted state-owned water and sewer authority announced that it is cutting off service to customers who don't pay their bills, including the municipal government of Arecibo.

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Leave Food Out for the Mail Carrier; Stamp Out Hunger is Today
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It is the nation's largest single-day food drive, and is held annually on the second Saturday in May in 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam. Last year, letter carriers collected ...
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