Word: alfonso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting was over and the city appeared calm. Police and military remained stationed through the night and today at numerous points within the city. Shortly before midnight Mayor Alfonso Martinez Dominquez, meeting with the press, said that the city was calm and that the government would not permit disorders to continue. Today on street-corners throughout the "Normal" area where the fighting had centered many of the right-wing students lingered without the clubs that they had carried yesterday...
...Alfonso Garcia Robles, 59, Mexico's ambassador to the U.N. Though he is capable, Garcia might be considered by the Soviets too close to the U.S. thumb...
...White Racism: Galleano (in Guatemala: Occupied Country ) says that most of the guerrillas are Indian. I'd like to think so but it's probably not true. Alfonso Bauer Paiz says 30 per cent. About 60 per cent of the population is Indian, and almost all the peasants are Indian. I am sorry to find that most Guatemalan students (who are all white) are quite racist-even some of the big anti-imperialists. Even though two of the three guerrilla leaders were Indians (the late Yon Sosa and Turicos...
...JUST READ in the New York Times [Dec. 27, 1970], that one of the few Guatemalan professors who was not afraid to talk to me has been shot while driving his car by one of the Right's death squads. This man, Alfonso Bauer Paiz, had publicly denounced the government so many times, and had nearly died for it so many times, that he had nothing to fear from informers. He was only wounded this time. While I was in Guatemala this summer, they tried to run him over in a car. Sooner or later, they will...
...next 23 years (Guatemala's rich get tossed $204 million). ( Naeva Presencia, Guatemala, University of San Carlos, Facultad de Economic, July, 1970) Twelve of every one hundred children die before age four, six on them from measles. The illiteracy rate is the second highest in Latin America. (Juan Maestro Alfonso, Estudias de la vida rural en America Central, Madrid, 1969, cited in Madrid, Jan, 17, 1970) Since it leaves the people "vulnerable to Castroite propaganda" (quote from ex-president Fuentes, Alerta, May 31, 1970, p. 3) education is not stressed. And as for how they eat, the director...