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Sitting together in their Hollis double at three a.m. one morning last semester, roommates Smitha Ramakrishna ’13 and Nicole Paulet Piedra ’13 lamented the quickly approaching end of their freshman year...
...very improvised, more like a conversation,” Paulet Piedra said...
...dynastic power and procure royal captives for very public and ornate executions. But after 761, he notes, "wars led to wholesale destruction of property and people, reflecting a breakdown of social order comparable to modern Somalia." In that year the king and warriors of nearby Tamarindito and Arroyo de Piedra besieged Dos Pilas. Says Demarest: "They defeated the king of Dos Pilas and probably dragged him back to Tamarindito to sacrifice him." The reason for the abrupt change in the Maya's battleground behavior, he suspects, was that the ruling elite had grown large enough to produce intense rivalries among...
...countryside the fear seems palpable. In Piedra Labrada, a village in Cuscatlan, guardsmen opposed a meeting to form an agricultural cooperative. The get-together took place anyway. The next morning, an 18-year-old boy who had attended was found dead. Only three people turned out for the next meeting. Human rights groups focus on atrocities by the armed forces, but the F.M.L.N. is also guilty of abuses. In April two men in the village of La Periquera were executed by the guerrillas for failing to pay a "war tax." In another town, the F.M.L.N. announced it would execute...
Hasenfus and his wife had a candlelight dinner at the home of U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala Alberto M. Piedra where they spent the night, the Advocate newspaper of Stamford, Conn., reported yesterday...