Word: adolfo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...correspondents struggle to fill their notebooks with anything more than rumor or innuendo. They follow a well- trodden path to the contra offices in a sprawling bungalow on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. The spokesperson is charming but uninformative. On a good day, a journalist might run into Contra Leaders Adolfo Calero or Enrique Bermudez, but they are not always forthcoming...
Rumors flew last month that unnamed right-wing politicians in San Salvador were hard at work trying to persuade senior military officers to overthrow President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The flurry of speculation quickly fizzled out when Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Adolfo Blandon publicly reiterated his support for the President...
...Adolfo Calero, head of the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest contra group, insists that his forces have received little if any of the funds and strongly denies any knowledge of Swiss bank accounts. A senior U.S. Administration official agrees. "There were no such large infusions of cash," he says. "The contras were constantly short of things. No question they were hurting...
...make matters worse, half a million people have been forced from their homes by the war. The earthquake, which killed as many as 1,500 people, left more than 100,000 homeless and damaged 70% of all government buildings in the capital, slowing official business. Says Communications Minister Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes: "We will probably need $2 billion to get back to where we were...
That brought angry denials from El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte and Military Commander General Adolfo Blandon. They were embarrassed by the public linkage of Ilopango, where U.S. military advisers are stationed, to the contra flights. Indeed, the spotlight on Ilopango's role as a base for supplying the contras, long an open secret in Central America, brought new problems for Duarte as he struggled with the impact of the Oct. 10 earthquake in the capital of San Salvador that left more than 600 dead and thousands homeless. Duarte last week received a promise of $50 million...