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Mexico's multi-party legislative commission Cocopa, which was set up to facilitate rebel government talks, abandoned its customary polite language this week and denounced as "unacceptable" an increase in troop movements in the southern state of Chaipas.
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The former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, yesterday looked likely to escape the clutches of British law when he won his High Court battle against his arrest and detention. He could be free to fly home as early as next week.
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The financial hurricane that is sweeping through the financial markets chose a bad time to touch down in Mexico.
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April 22 1997: On this day commandos stormed the Japanese embassy in Peru, ending a four-month siege. This is how the Guardian reported the news.
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Originally published in the Guardian on 21 March 1984: Hilda Murrell was murdered ten years ago, at a moment in British history when the shadow of the secret state seemed to be everywhere. There has been no shortage of theories about why she was killed but the culprit has never been caught
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December 20 1989: On this day the US government invaded Panama and overthrew the dictatorship of General Noriega. This is how the Guardian reported the events.
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February 3 1989: On this day General Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay's dictator, was overthrown in a military coup orchestrated by his son-in-law. This is how the Guardian reported the news.
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Originally published in the Guardian on 22 April 1985: Investigation into the death of the anti-nuclear campaigner brutally murdered in March 1984
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Originally published in the Guardian on 10 January 1985: Investigation into the death of Miss Hilda Murrell
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Originally published in the Guardian on 21 December 1984: Labour MP claims anti-nuclear campaigner Hilda Murrell died after violent encounter with intelligence officers
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Originally published in the Guardian on 11 October 1982: Polly Toynbee speaks to Simon Weston, who suffered severe burns when the Sir Galahad was attacked during the Falklands war
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Originally published in the Guardian on 16 June 1982: The Falklands themselves, the prize of the war, will quickly retreat down the league table of public concern, but a spirit of nationalism has been aroused and it will linger on beyond the quieting of the guns
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The trouble with this sort of thing is that you can so easily sound like Professor Colin McCabe. But it is interesting, is it not, to observe the kind of language being used - no names, no pack drill, but mainly in the Sun - to chronicle the unhappy goings on in the South Atlantic.
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May 25 1982: On this day two British naval craft were destroyed by Argentinian air attacks off the Falklands. This is how the Guardian reported the events.
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British forces in the South Atlantic suffered their first serious losses yesterday afternoon when the destroyer HMS Sheffield was hit and destroyed by an Argentinian missile and a Sea Harrier was shot down while attacking an airstrip on the Falklands.
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Originally published in the Guardian on May 3 1982: Enemy vessel was in 200-mile exclusion zone and posed significant threat to British task force, says Ministry of Defence. Unconfirmed reports that ship many have been sunk
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April 2 1982On this day Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands beginning a two and a half moth conflict that would claim 255 British lives and 655 Argentine lives. This is how the Guardian reported the events.
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October 11 1967: On this day in 1967, the body of Che Guevara was flown to Vallegrande, Bolivia. A Guardian journalist witnessed the event.
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Urged on by the United States and a confederation of five South American states, the warring nations of Bolivia and Paraguay accepted a truce here today, bringing to a halt the three-year long Chaco War.