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...coincidence of Alvarez's ouster with the start of the latest U.S. exercises raised immediate speculation about Washington's role, if any, in what amounted to a Honduran housecleaning. For the past two years, Alvarez has been accused of being the de facto strongman of Honduras, pulling both military and political strings behind the folksy, conservative Suazo. The charge was one that Alvarez took no great pains to deny. A colonel when he took over as armed forces chief, he arranged his own series of promotions to five-star general. Fiercely antiCommunist, he launched a harsh antiterrorist campaign...
...Alvarez's blatant cronyism had become a source of rancor in the Honduran armed forces; so had increasing rumors of corruption within his clique. The Defense Minister began avoiding meetings of the armed forces superior council. When he did attend one last month, says a participant, Alvarez was "gross and vulgar." Younger officers suspected that he was tapping their telephones and following their personal movements. Some junior military men may have been bothered by Alvarez's embrace of the U.S. training center in Honduras for Salvadoran troops: many Honduran officers have lingering memories of their country...
...Alvarez testified that he fired in self-defense when Johnson, who had a .22-cal. handgun tucked under a sweater, made "a sudden move." Prosecutors argued that Alvarez was never in danger and used a revolver with a hair trigger...
Weary Miamians had seen it happen three times since 1982: a black man is fatally shot by a white police officer, who is later acquitted by an all-white jury. Violence ensues. That script was followed inexorably last week when Luis Alvarez, 24, a Cuban police officer, was acquitted of manslaughter charges in the December 1982 shooting of Nevell Johnson Jr., 20, a Dade County messenger...
...unrelated development, a former Mason fellow at the Kennedy School of Government has formed an organization dedicated to the democratization of the Philippines. Heherson Alvarez, who studied at the K-School in 1981-82, said that the group will encourage Filipino nationals living in the United States to boycott Philippine taxes, as well as foster civil disobedience in that country...