Guatemalan migrant fights U.S. for his wages
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STUART, Florida  - For nine years Pedro Zapeta did nothing but work and save.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A Guatemalan who has lived in Quebec for 16 years went into hiding Friday rather than be deported over alleged war crimes he committed during the Central American country's civil war.
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The Catholic Church in Mexico   accused a former altar boy on Thursday of attempting extortion   by filing a lawsuit charging U.S. and Mexican church officials   allowed a priest accused of sex abuse to escape justice.
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DANBURY, Connecticut  - Ten Hispanic immigrants filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a Connecticut city, its mayor and police chief, and federal agents who led a crackdown on illegal immigration last year.
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Plans to resume salary payments to government workers have become the latest battleground for rival Palestinian factions struggling to win the support of the residents of the West Bank and Gaza.
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SAN RAYMUNDO, Guatemala -- At the slippery base of a steep, muddy path, Armando Sanchez, a thickset man with dark bags beneath heavily lidded eyes, slumped in a plastic chair and sobbed.
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HAMILTON, Ohio  - Miguel Garcia owns a Mexican grocery and would like to open a bakery too, but the illegal immigrant is waiting to see if the U.S. Congress will pass immigration reform before he invests in a new business.
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A Guatemalan refugee who is the focus of a long-running debate over asylum for battered women will be allowed to remain in the United States, the Homeland Security Department decided Friday.
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Guatemala knows it is losing the battle against drug trafficking &#151; its police, military and justice system are beholden to traffickers who use the country as a way station for Colombian drug shipments to the U.S.
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Slovenia has asked the United States to extradite a man charged here with fraud, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday.
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MEXICO CITY -- For the 14 years he worked as an undocumented migrant in the United States, Carmelo Rivera saw up to $30 deducted each week from the $300 to $500 he earned as a vineyard worker. The deductions were supposed to pay for his retirement.
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President Bush's message of goodwill in Latin America ran into a wall in Guatemala on Monday as he defended his efforts to establish a temporary worker program but gave no ground on the deportation of illegal workers.
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ALTAR, Mexico  - Between mouthfuls of beef tacos, Guatemalan people-smuggler Carlos sits at a road side restaurant in Mexico casually drawing routes on a napkin for illegal immigrants to walk the desert into the United States.
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A dispute between Guatemala's new government and its independent adoption agency is threatening to delay the adoption of more than 2,500 Guatemalan children, mostly by foreign parents from the United States.
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A police officer has been indicted in the death of a homeless Guatemalan man in Mount Kisco, N.Y., exposing tensions in this sleepy community between immigrant laborers and its mostly white, affluent population.
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HARTFORD, Connecticut  - The United States, who  look poised to appear in their fifth successive World Cup  finals, are embroiled in a labor row involving the players and  the national federation.
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The leftist opposition leader who had himself declared Mexico's "legitimate president" this week to back up claims of fraud in a July 2 presidential election asked for donations on Wednesday to pay his salary.