Word: alfonso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane was flying along when suddenly it exploded, broke in two and fell in flames and smoke," said a witness, Alfonso Moreno, in an interview with Radio Caracol...
...Vargas' determination to continue his crusade against the Extraditables, the monthlong counterattack by the cartel has begun to take its toll. Weary of the violence, Colombians from all sectors of society are calling for a truce and a direct dialogue between the government and the drug barons. Former President Alfonso Lopez Michelson says Colombia will have to "eventually sit down and talk things out with all the forces of destabilization in the country...
...first peaceful transition of power from one civilian leader to another in Guatemala's history was set in motion last week by the selection of a candidate to represent the ruling Christian Democratic Party in the 1990 presidential election. Early returns showed the winner was former Foreign Minister Alfonso Cabrera Hidalgo, President Vinicio Cerezo's handpicked candidate, with 60% of the vote...
...final processing of cocaine base into a white hydrochloride powder. The manufacture of ethyl ether has been outlawed in Colombia, and importation is closely regulated. A 55-gal. drum of ethyl ether that sells for $500 in the U.S. fetches more than $12,000 in Colombia. Says Alfonso Barragan, president of the Colombian Society of Chemical Engineers: "The Colombian black market in chemicals probably has a higher profit margin than that of cocaine itself...
...exhibition "Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment," which was shown at the Prado in Madrid last fall, opened last week at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and will be seen from May 9 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Organized by Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez, director of the Prado, and Eleanor A. Sayre, the eminent Goya scholar who is curator emeritus of drawings, prints and photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, the show is a curatorial masterpiece. Its catalog, with essays by Perez Sanchez and Sayre as well as other art historians such...