Word: arevalo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stepped from his bulletproof Mercedes-Benz, cheering well-wishers mobbed President-elect Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo outside the headquarters of his Christian Democratic Party at Guatemala City's Camino Real Hotel. Cerezo, a 42-year-old lawyer, had just been declared the victor in a runoff election for the Guatemalan presidency. The second round of balloting came after national elections last month failed to produce a candidate with a majority. This time Cerezo captured 68% of the vote, soundly defeating his opponent, Newspaper Owner Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 53, of the center-right National Center Union Party. Even Christian Democratic Party leaders...
...suggested that the arrests had been made only for show; the new DEA chief, Robert Lawn, even accused Mexican police of a role in Camarena's kidnaping. With so much sniping across the border, the Mexicans tried to salvage their image. In a national television appearance, Defense Secretary Juan Arevalo Gardoqui declared, "We are fervent and passionate fighters against the (narcotics) traffic...
...SURELY one of the most ironic footnotes to history. In his inagural in 1945, leftist Juan Jose Arevalo, the first popularly elected President of Guatemala., movingly cited Franklin Roosevelt. "He taught us," said Arevalo, "that there is no need to cancel the concept of freedom is the democratic system in order to breathe into it a socialist spirit...
Just nine year later, Arevalo's involution, which had made real progress in relieving the poor from grinding poverty, came to its unnatural end. The CIA, with the full support of President Eisenhower, deposed Arevalo's successor Jacob Arbenz and installed a military government. Since that day, Roosevelt's freedom has disappeared, reforms have been obliterated, and thousands of Guatemalans have died at the hands of rightist death squads. Guatemala, which for a brief decade was a source of hope for moderate progressives the world over, is now a human-rights disaster area...
They may no longer be relevant-according to the other factions in Guatemalan politics they are not-but they are apparently considered a risk to someone: last week passing cars fired a rocket and tossed grenades into the home of the Christian Democrats' secretary-general, Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo. The attack was the third or fourth attempt on his life, he isn't exactly sure about the total. "I don't know why I'm alive at this moment," he says, smiling. "It is a little fluke...