Word: arturo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shlaudeman, they served notice last week that the issue of internal democracy may be beyond such negotiation. The Managua regime announced that it would uphold a ban on political privileges for a coalition of opposition parties, labor unions and business groups known as the coordinadora. The coalition, led by Arturo Cruz Sequeira, a onetime junta member, had refused to register for the Nov. 4 elections, charging that Sandinista restrictions on political freedom made a truly democratic race impossible. Said Democratic Representative John Bryant of Texas, an opponent of Reagan Administration policies who was in Nicaragua last week on a fact...
...Nicaraguans gathered at Managua's Augusto César Sandino Airport last week left little doubt about their opinion of the Marxist-led Sandinista government. "Democracy, yes! Communism, no!" they chanted. "With Arturo in the seat there'll be plenty to eat. Arturo is the future." The small but vocal crowd had turned out to welcome Arturo Cruz, 60, a former junta member and Ambassador to Washington, who was back home from self-imposed exile in the U.S. to run as an opposition candidate in the Nicaraguan elections scheduled for Nov. 4. But the jubilation was short-lived...
...coalition of opposition parties said at week's end that it had nominated former Junta Member Arturo Cruz, who is expected to return this week from voluntary exile in the U.S., as its presidential candidate. The opposition insists, however, that it will not enter the race until the Sandinistas lift the state of emergency and relax other controls over the country. Reacting to the Sandinistas' announcement, President Reagan declared that "no person committed to democracy will be taken in by a Soviet-style sham election...
...have a guest in your house, the first week you have breakfast and the talk is friendly," explains Jorge Arturo Reina, leader of a dissident faction of Honduras' ruling Liberal Party. "After a month, your wife begins to ask when he is leaving. The second month, you ask him directly what his plans are." Nor is any foreign military presence likely to be popular in a country in which barely half the population is fully employed and per capita income is only $600 a year. Although in the present fiscal year the U.S. is committed to sending Honduras...
...corruption. He has created watchdog offices for public spending and jailed Jorge Diaz Serrano, former president of the state-owned PEMEX oil giant, on charges of defrauding the company of $34 million. He has also allowed the government to investigate the suspicious wealth of former Mexico City Police Chief Arturo Durazo Moreno, and confiscated some of his ostentatious properties...