Word: alfonso
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Even more worrisome were the junta's foreign policy moves. In the first official visit by members of the junta to another country, Alfonso Robelo Callejas and Moises Hassan led a delegation of 23 guerrillas to Cuba. Fidel Castro was celebrating the 26th anniversary of his assault on Havana's Moncada barracks. Repaying the Palestine Liberation Organization for the arms and other support it provided during the Sandinistas' "final offensive," the new Nicaraguan government announced that it would seek a "close relationship" with Arab countries...
...quiet charisma has enabled the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) writer to win the confidence of all the factions represented on the five-member ruling junta and its 15-member Cabinet, though the ideologies range from the doctrinaire Marxism of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega to the capitalism of Businessman Alfonso Robelo. "During all the negotiations we had with the junta, Ramírez came out as the strong man," says a U.S. diplomat. "He behaved in a tough manner and struck us as the kind of leftist liberal who has little sympathy for the U.S. and its policy in Central...
...Daniel, who represent the Terceristas on the nine-man Sandinista National Directorate. Daniel was named by Sandinistas as their representative on the five-member "temporary government" selected last week by the rebels. The others: Moises Hassan Morales, leader of the Sandinistas' political arm, the National Patriotic Front; Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a businessman jailed by Somoza for leading a strike; Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, widow of the slain editor of the opposition newspaper La Prensa; and Sergio Ramírez Mercado, former secretary of the Central American University in Costa Rica...
...Washington should have gone well beyond the cutoff of economic and military assistance that the Carter Administration ordered after Somoza last January rejected an American proposal for a plebiscite to determine his government's future. "Such sanctions have no impact on a ruler with a feudal mentality," charges Alfonso Robelo Callejas, leader of the moderate Broad Opposition Front, which has been losing members to more extremist organizations...
...Pope John Paul II, in his opening speech at the conference, had denounced social injustice but also warned the bishops not to politicize the church, and to eschew violent reform−a delicate balance that discouraged many progressives by its ambiguity. A source of more distress was Colombian Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo, the CELAM secretary general who reportedly had received Vatican approval to stack the group with conservatives to avoid a reprise of the 1968 CELAM II in Medellin, Colombia. There, a liberal minority pushed through strong documents that inspired the Marxist-tinged "theology of liberation." Since...