Word: arevalo
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Much of the credit for Guatemala's democratic revival goes to President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, 44. Since taking office in January 1986 as only the second civilian leader in 30 years, Cerezo has walked a delicate line of placating the military, which wields ultimate power, and nurturing the country's democratic seedlings. A lawyer by training, Cerezo has shown a skilled hand in dealing with Guatemala's domestic problems. Last week, at the door of the national palace, he confronted relatives of some of the thousands of people who are missing and presumed to have been killed in political violence...
...devout even for a country that is 85% Catholic. And if Cory inspires faith, it is largely because she is inspired by it. Three of her closest advisers are Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila; Father Joaquin Bernas, president of the Jesuit Ateneo de Manila University; and Father Catalino Arevalo, another Jesuit, who is her spiritual adviser. Addressing the governors of the Asian Development Bank and 1,200 international delegates two months after coming to power, she frankly declared, "I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles...
...things infuriate Mexican officials more than U.S. accusations that government bigwigs are involved in drug trafficking. Last week the Mexicans were angrily denying a report in the San Diego Union charging that Defense Minister General Juan Arevalo Gardoqui was one of 45 law-enforcement and political figures linked to narcotics. President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took the allegation so seriously that an official was dispatched to Washington to inquire whether the charges reflected U.S. thinking...
...other "drug traffickers." An editorial asserted that the very presence of American intelligence-gathering agents created a "stinking sewer." Both the governor and the attorney general of Jalisco state, where the detention had taken place, flatly denied all charges of torture. And the country's Defense Minister, General Juan Arevalo Gardoqui, spoke for many of his compatriots when he said Mexico had no need of outside help...
...Costa Rica and Panama--have tried not to get caught in the cross fire between Managua and Washington. So far their policy has been to maintain passable relations with the Sandinistas and to keep the U.S. at arm's length. In Guatemala, for instance, newly elected President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo describes his policy as "active neutrality." Some Central American leaders are worried that the U.S. will send in the Marines to overthrow the Sandinistas and thereby plunge the whole region into a conflagration. The Sandinistas do not try to allay these fears. "If the U.S. intervenes," warned a militant Sandinista...