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Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity |
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Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity |
Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca |
Secretary-General Angel Sánchez Viesca |
Founded 7 February 1982 (founded) |
18 December 1998 (legalised) |
Headquarters Guatemala City |
Ideology Socialism |
Colors Red, Green, Yellow |
Seats in Congress |
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The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (in Spanish: Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, URNG-MAIZ or most commonly URNG) is a Guatemalan political party that started as a guerrilla movement but laid down its arms in 1996 and became a legal political party in 1998 after the peace process after the Guatemal... |
Since the CIA-backed coup in 1954, opposition groups were continuously forming in an attempt to fight against the repression that the military and wealthy landowners in Guatemala had created.[1] The UNRG formed as a leftist umbrella organization consisting of four groups: the Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP), the Revol... |
Civil war[edit] |
In March 1982, only one month after their formation, the URNG experienced an attack led by retired General Efraín Ríos Montt. Backed by the CIA, Ríos Montt led a “scorched-earth” counterinsurgency campaign against the URNG and its supporters until he was toppled the following year. |
The UNRG employed ambushes and raids on government security forces as their main tactic, and also performed bombings and assassinations. They attacked the military, government officials, as well as foreign diplomats and foreign businesses. The government responded with undercover death-squads, supported by the police a... |
By the time a civilian government returned to office in 1986, the URNG recognized that coming to power through armed struggle was out of the question, and they took initiatives to negotiate a political solution. |
According to a report in NACLA's Report on the Americas (May/June 1997), |
The government and army maintained that since they had "defeated" the URNG, they had no need to negotiate until the guerrillas had laid down their arms. The subsequent settlements ending the wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador stiffened the elites' resolve "never" to permit such an outcome in Guatemala. |
The Guatemalan Civil War was a bloody affair that lasted 36 years. The URNG functioned as an umbrella organization to represent the leftist beliefs amongst the Guatemalan people, particularly the Guatemalan poor. Although they were involved in attacks, their primary function was at the negotiation table with the Guatem... |
In 1987 URNG substituted PGT-NDN for the Guatemalan Party of Labour (PGT) in its leadership. The political party is interested in disarmament, demobilization and integration process as outlined by the United Nations It is now a peaceful political party that is part of the New Alliance Bloc. |
Peace process and legal opposition party[edit] |
On 29 December 1996, a peace agreement was signed by the government and the URNG in the presence of UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, officially ending the 36-year civil war. The Secretary-General of the URNG, Comandante Rolando Morán and president Álvaro Arzú jointly received the UNESCO Peace Prize for their... |
The UNRG has since apologized for the atrocities that occurred during the Guatemalan Civil War, asking forgiveness from all victims, families and other who experienced any kind of excesses. This apology came two days after President Clinton admitted the role of the United States in a “dark and painful period” during th... |
In the legislative election, held on 9 November 2003, the party won 4.2% of the popular vote and 2 out of 158 seats in Congress. In the presidential election held the same day, its candidate Rodrigo Asturias won 2.6% of the popular vote. At the 2007 elections, the party won with 3.72% 2 seats in the congressional elect... |
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Cycling Myths Debunked, part I |
by Bill Oetinger |
Column reprinted courtesy of |
I generally try to steer this column in a happy, non-confrontational direction, confining myself to subjects that make me smile and (I hope) make my readers smile too. Fortunately, cycling is a topic that provides many smiles per mile, so it's easy to be upbeat about it. |
But every so often, I start thinking about some aspects of our chosen avocation that get me a little bit riled up. You can guess that these dark thoughts will have something to do with the conflicts between bikes and cars. No surprise there. There are many little troubles that beset cyclists from time to time, from bon... |
I haven't had any recent run-ins with road rage to focus my fury. Most of the time, my relations with my fellow road users are cordial. These are just some thoughts I've been kicking around for some time, and as a therapy for myself, I want to get them off my journalistic chest, once and for all, and then go back to ha... |
If you listen to enough discussions between cyclists and non-cyclists about the legitimacy of cycling, you will hear two opinions, passed off as fact, which are used to marginalize cyclists as second-class citizens of the road... |
1. Most cycling miles are "recreational" — people out playing around — and are thus somewhat frivolous and of a lower order of importance than real road-user miles (car miles), which involve working or commuting. |
2. Cyclists don't pay their own way on the road because they don't pay registration fees or other use fees such as gas taxes. |
Both of these notions really bug me, not only because they're wrong, or at least flawed logically, but also because they have such widespread credibility, even among the ranks of cyclists. My goal here is to debunk these myths so that you won't ever believe them again, and so that, when someone throws them in your face... |
No offense to you the reader, but the conventional wisdom is that folks reading copy on the web have the attention span of a gerbil, so in order to keep this short, I'm going to address the first issue this month and the second one next month. |
Okay...first myth first. We had a little survey in our club this year to determine how many of our collective miles were something other than recreational: commuting, running errands, or in some way using a bike in place of a car. Even riding to recreational rides would count, as opposed to driving to the ride starts. ... |
I know the club members who came up with the idea of the survey would deny this. They would say they were only trying to point out how many car-miles were being replaced by bike-miles. Nevertheless, the idea persists--in the minds of most motorists and many cyclists--that no-fun miles are more legitimate than fun miles... |
Now don't get me wrong: I love the idea of cycle-commuting. I did it for many years and the only reason I don't do it now is because I work at home. I try to use my town bike for errands, and I ride to club rides whenever it's practical, which in my case means almost any time the ride start is within 20 miles of my hou... |
But do I think those working miles entitle me to a larger chunk of the moral high ground in the debate over road rights, and that my recreational miles are less worthy? Hardly. |
First off, let's look at who's using the road and how legitimate their uses are. I will accept all freight hauling and delivery work as worthy, along with such services as meter reading. (Even though a lot of meter reading could be done easily on a bike, and at a fraction of the cost and pollution, and that some freigh... |
But commuting miles? Where is it ordained that living an hour from work and chugging back and forth in a single-occupant vehicle is legitimate? Sorry... commuting doesn't compute. I'm not saying we have to radically reinvent our society, but we do need to consider all the alternatives to long commutes in cars: living c... |
Now, about those recreational miles... While in most of the world, the bicycle is a primary form of working transportation, it is true that in highway-happy California, most bike miles are recreational. But then, how many car (and truck and SUV) miles are also recreational? How about the soccer mom hauling the kids to ... |
What about those gas-guzzling RVs? They actually call them "recreational vehicles" least they're honest! (An aside: motorists are forever getting stuck behind dawdling, waddling RVs. They may fume and fuss while they're stuck, but do they lay all over the horn and scream and flip the driver the bird when they finally g... |
I'm sure if I dug around on the 'net long enough, I could find statistics that tell us what percentage of total miles in this country is working miles and what percentage is recreational, but I'll bet it's close to 50/50. Check out the monster traffic jam on the south-bound approach to the Golden Gate Bridge on any Sun... |
By comparison, a cyclist's use of the road for recreational pursuits looks positively clean and green, even when it involves a little drive to and from the start. If legitimacy is enhanced by generating less pollution, causing less congestion, consuming fewer resources, and doing less damage to the infrastructure, then... |
Next: paying your own way. |
Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
We've Got The American Jesus |
My thoughts on Romney's big speech today: |
It's absolutely pathetic that in this day and age, some people could withhold their vote from someone because of their religious beliefs. I am ashamed to share a country with the sort of jackasses that would do so. Perhaps they should read the Constitution - "no religious test shall be applied" to anyone running for of... |
There are plenty of other reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney - his religion should not be one of them. So let's all just drop the subject and move on, shall we? |
Update: The Post editorial board drives a truck through a gaping hole in Romney's actual speech. Given that, in my experience, atheists tend to be among the most passionate supporters of liberty, the idea that "freedom requires religion" is particularly ridiculous. As is the idea that "religion requires freedom." Inser... |
Mike said... |
Yeah, I was quite amused with the "freedom requires religion and vice versa" bit. If God doesn't require religion (as is my own personal belief), then freedom certainly doesn't. This whole Mormon debacle is ludicrous. There are far far better reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney. |
Barzelay said... |
I wouldn't withhold my vote solely on the basis of a candidate's religion, but the fact of them being religious is itself a major strike against them in my book. It isn't because of their religion, it's because of the lack of reason and independent thought required for an adult to be religious. And statements like Romn... |
But I can't vote for them when they combine that idiocy with the further mistakes of 1) conforming one's beliefs (and the actions one bases on his beliefs) to a particular arbitrary set of beliefs approved by a particular arbitrary religious governing body, 2) making it a public issue in an election and spouting off at... |
So in sum, I could care less about what a candidate does every Sunday morning, but I do want a President who is intelligent, logical, and strong-willed. |
Kenny said... |
I think you're not recognizing the important role a person's religion can play in his carrying out of the presidency. President Bush's religion has clearly played a role in his presidency; why wouldn't we want to know something about how Romney's faith might affect his presidency? |
And the Constitution is meant to allow people to think and believe what they want while preventing the government from legally discriminating based on these same things. If it's just dumb for a person to believe a Mormon shouldn't be president, then let the market place of ideas and the democratic system prove them wro... |
(including Plants without Chlorophyll) |
These non-green plants obtain their nutrition through a fungal associate. The fungus connects a photosynthetic plant (green plant, often a conifer) to the non-green Ericaceae. The non-green ericads are considered mycotrophic rather than parasitic, because there is an intermediate (the fungus) between the "host" and the... |
Distribution Map of Monotropoideae throughout the World |
Based on DNA sequence data, members of the non-green Ericaceae fall into two groups. One group contains just two species: Pterospora andromeda (pine drops) and Sarcodes sanguinea (Tribe Pterosporeae). The other group contains species such as Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe) and Allotropa virgata (Monotropeae). |
Phylogenetic tree of Monotropoideae |
Description of Monotropoideae |
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One of the things we're currently working on is hacking together something to support automatic updates of our non-LDAP-aware tools and to implement certain business logic rules for our own directory. So, for instance, when an entry aquires an ou of FOO, we would like to add their mail attribute (if any) to the mailing... |
1. Have something periodically crawl the directory and notice changes. |
2. Have something periodically scrape a logfile to get changes. |
3. Use back-perl (with back-bdb replicas for reading). |
4. Write data somewhere else first with custom tools, then sync to LDAP. |
5. Write a limited back-perl and make that a replica of the main server. |
Unless I have grossly misread the documentation (which is, I must admit, a possibility) there isn't an Apache-like module syntax whereby I could manipulate data and then hand it to a pre-existing backend (although some of our goals might be achievable with back-meta). We thought about just patching the code, but of cou... |
So, we're currently leaning towards #5, but would be interested to know if there is a better way of implementing this using OpenLDAP (since other people have presumably done this kind of thing in the past). |
John Klein |
Database Applications Developer |
Information Technology Services - Harvard Law School |
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit |
December 12, 2010 |
Service Christmas Tree Windows |
One Sunday my husband was talking to the kids about service. I was in the other room trying to calm down our three year old who was throwing a major tantrum. When I reentered the family room, I overheard my husband telling the kids that mommy could make a christmas tree and put it on the wall and cut out circles for... |
the banana ornament is my favorite |
1. Nice. We are doing something similar except it's a present under the tree with a hole in it to put notes of what service things we are doing to give to Jesus as his bday present. We are going to read them together on Christmas Eve. |
2. oooh, that's a good idea. I like the reading them christmas eve part. |
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