CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 7, 1993 | PATRICK J. McDONNELL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Rigoberta Menchu Tum, the Guatemalan Indian human rights activist awarded last year's Nobel Peace Prize, voiced strong support Thursday for efforts to grant temporary protected status to tens of thousands of Guatemalan exiles living in the United States. "Conditions are not right for many of my compatriots to return home," Menchu said during an interview in Los Angeles, home to the nation's largest Guatemalan refugee community.
WORLD
February 5, 2008 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Jorge Castaneda, a former Mexican foreign secretary under President Vicente Fox, allegedly served as an agent for Cuba's intelligence service for at least three years starting in the late 1970s, the Mexico City daily El Universal reported. Documents kept in Mexico's national archive show that Castaneda, then in his mid-20s, was recruited as a spy by the head of Cuba's intelligence operations in Mexico.