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...times the amount B.C.C.I.'s Colombia branch reported for the entire year. The branch split apart from B.C.C.I. last week when it was acquired by Isaac Gilinsky, a Colombian food and textile magnate who said he would reorganize the branch and reopen it under the name Banco Andino...
...worst is over, and there is peace now in the border region," Col. Reynald Andino Flores, commander of the Honduran army's 101st Infantry Brigade, said by telephone from his headquarters in southern Honduras...
...Salvador's military school; Colonel Jaime Abdul Gutierrez, 43; Roman Mayarga Quiros, 36, an M.I.T.-educated electrical engineer who was formerly rector of the University of Central America; Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 47, a university administrator who ran for Vice President in the 1972 election; and Mario Andino, 43, an electrical engineer known for his progressive political views...
Died. General Tiburcio Canas Andino, 93, President of Honduras from 1933 to 1948 and stereotype Central American dictator; of a lung infection; in Tegucigalpa. Huge, mustachioed and of Indian descent, Andino was something of a popular hero when he was elected President in 1932. He did achieve a measure of political stability in an unstable country (116 Presidents in 108 years of independence) as well as some economic progress. But his hero image faded swiftly when he began ruling by fiat and filled the prisons with those who protested, all the while illegally extending his term. In 1949, he handed...
...doomed the grand vision of a free market stretching from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn. Indeed, one of the conference's achievements was the approval of a regional subgrouping within LAFTA that will soon open up a free-trade zone embracing 50 million people. The so-called "Andino group" of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Chile will begin planning its tariff cuts next month. As for LAFTA, its diplomats will resume talks in November. If nothing else, they discovered at Asunción just how much work there is to be done...