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Guatemala 1988. The Mitsubishi was shining iridescent gray and had smokey windows. It was parked across the narrow avenue outside the Colonial Hotel's heavy swinging wooden doors in downtown Guatemala City. With a courteous nod the driver opens the door ushers us inside the car. The seats are soft and the carpet lush and when the door slides shut its quiet, cocooned. Behind the windows, outside, the glint and flash of chrome and glass and gritty clouds of diesel smoke inky thick. And the crackling motor cycles and blue police jeeps and people streaming past the sun drenched fractured walls and shadowed corridors, merchants selling fruit and postcards and music washing past. And there's a truck passing loaded with fresh unfilled coffins simply carved with swirls and varnished shiny brown stacked in rows - I can see it through the smokey glass. Traveling south towards the coast with Mario Solorzano Martinez, secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Guatemala. The winds of ...

  Iran Contra Redux Performed at the Museum of Sound Recording Saturday October 19th, 1996 Lab´y-rinth, n. [ Labyrinthus; Gr. labyrinthos ,  from laura ,  labra , an alley, lane.]      1. an intricate structure or enclosure containing a series of winding passages hard to follow without losing one's way; a maze.     2. [L-] In Greek legend, such a structure built by Daedalus for King Minos of Crete, to house the Minotaur.     3. a complicated, perplexing arrangement, course of affairs, etc.     4. in anatomy, that part of the internal ear behind the cavity of the tympanum, or drum; the inner ear.     5. in metallurgy, a series of troughs in a stamping mill through which water passes for washing, pulverized ore.     6. in architecture, a design in the tiling of a floor. On Form and RadioText  Much of the sound in this performance comprises radio documentary material included in ...