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Coverage of Alfonso Portillo's landslide victory in Sunday's runoff to Guatemala's general election seldom failed to mention the positive impact of Portillo's confession earlier this year that in 1982 he killed two rivals for the deanship of the Mexican law school where he was teaching.
Eight years ago House speaker presumptive Bob Livingston, then an obscure junior congressman, and Slate 's Jacob Weisberg, then an obscure writer for the New Republic , were both on an official U.S. delegation to certify the legitimacy of an election in Guatemala.
Cecropia peltata leaves boiled in water are used in a bath for rheumatism in Guatemala [ 63 ] Cecropia peltata leaves are used for aches, abscesses, coughs, pains, fever, pertussis, skin lesions and digestive problems in Eastern Nicaragua, Jamaica and Cuba [ 53 64 ] . Cecropia peltata leaves are used for snakebites in Trinidad [ 52 65 ] . Free fatty acids including stearic, arachidic, behenic, lignoceric and cerotic acids were isolated from Cecropia species.
Aristolochia rugosa and Aristolochia trilobata are recorded in a list of plants used worldwide and in the West Indies, Venezuela, South and Central America against snakebites and scorpion stings [ 51 52 24 43 40 53 ] . Caribs in Guatemala use Aristolochia trilobata root and tuber decoctions for stomach pains and use leaf tinctures for diarrhoea [ 55 ] . Aristolochic acid inhibits inflammation induced by immune complexes, and nonimmunological agents (carrageenan or croton oil) [ 56 ] . Aristolochic acid inhibits the activity of snake venom phospholipase (PLA 2 ) by forming a 1:1 complex with the enzyme [ 56 40 38 ] . Since phospholipase enzymes play a significant part in the cascade leading to the inflammatory and pain response, their inhibition could lead to relief of problems from scorpion envenomation [ 11 ] .
' Quetzal (Guatemala) is the national bird and guarani (Paraguay) the name of an Indian tribe.
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