There also have been collapses in Peru, including one in 2006 that caused a mini tsunami; most recently, a glacial lagoon overflowed in April, triggering a landslide that killed two.
“I am innocent of what they are accusing us, I don’t know any of these women,” Sánchez testified before the verdict. Simeón Enríquez Gómez, the third paramilitary, was also convicted of raping two of the women.Anthropologist Aura Cumes, who testified as a forensic expert during the trial, said women suffered differently in the war than men did.
“Sexual violence was a planned and deliberate method,” she said. “It was effective for the army’s goals insomuch as these brutal acts on women had the effect of causing mistrust, of destroying healthy relationships between women and men, of splitting the family unit and destroying the community social fabric.”Another woman testified in closed session that she had been washing clothes in the river when paramilitaries and soldiers forced her inside and told her to strip. She was raped first by paramilitaries and then by soldiers.Through an interpreter, she explained that they took her husband that day and she never saw him again. She was four months pregnant at the time.
The Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification established by the United Nations to investigate human rights violations during the civil war, documented 1,465 cases of rape during the conflict. In 89% of the cases, the women were Indigenous Maya, according to the report.COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Minnesota Gov.
sought to energize activists at a Democratic state convention in South Carolina, as the party’s 2024 vice presidential nominee works to keep up the high national profile he gained when Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate.
Walz, a former schoolteacher who went on to serve in Congress and then became his state’s governor, keynoted the South Carolina gathering in Columbia, traditionally a showcase for national-level Democrats and White House hopefuls. Speaking to convention delegates for more than half an hour, Walz used colorful language and spoke plainly as he lobbed criticism at President Donald Trump and called on his fellow Democrats to have the courage to stand up to the “bully” in the White House.chain that ran its predecessor went bankrupt.
When a pharmacy does close in a rural area, communities feel the absence.In Herscher, Illinois, news came out of nowhere that the CVS would shut down in early March.
Mayor Shannon Sweeney met with CVS representatives and asked them to delay the closure for his village of 1,500 that’s 80 miles south of Chicago, but he said the company told him the front of the store was not making enough money.Pharmacy access is an important consideration, CVS spokesman Matt Blanchette told The Associated Press, but the company also weighs local market dynamics, population shifts and the number of stores in the area selling similar products. He confirmed the meeting with Sweeney, but did not directly answer a question about what financial issues led to the store closure.