Word: arturo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country by embassy officials and flown to the U.S. The murders were also carried out during the 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, when only the military is on the streets of the capital. "This was done by the military or by people closely allied to the military," says Arturo Rivera Damas, the Archbishop of San Salvador...
...problem, of course, is that as both sides strive to prove that they can stand up to their enemy, it is the people of El Salvador who reap the consequences. "If this spiral of violence continues," warned San Salvador's Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, "death and destruction will sweep away many, especially those who are of most use to our people...
...commitment to cover Latin communities here and abroad, they are divided over which language is the most effective vehicle for reaching their audience. Manuel Casiano, founder of the Puerto Rican magazine Imagen, favors Spanish, noting that 97% of Hispanic adults living in the U.S. today learned that language first. Arturo Villar, founder of Vista, and Alfredo Estrada, publisher of the upscale monthly Hispanic, argue that clinging to their native language holds Hispanics back. The effect of publishing in Spanish, Estrada says, "is to support a Spanish-speaking subclass that will always be flipping hamburgers for a living." Some news outlets...
...main reason for the University's inability to fulfill its plans is inexcusable. Arturo Morales-Carrion, perhaps the most prolific Puerto Rican historian of his time, was the professor the University wanted all along. But Morales-Carrion had been sick for the past few years and died this summer. Without Morales-Carrion, Gen Ed 154 could no longer exist, the University said...
Other deadlines also press. Come September, the presidential term of Eric Arturo Delvalle expires. Though he was forced from office by Noriega 14 months ago, the U.S. continues to recognize the exiled Delvalle as the legitimate President, and has used that handy fiction to withhold $86.5 million in fees collected by the Panama Canal Commission. Bush must decide what to do with those funds, which are legally owed to Panama. Moreover, under the terms of the canal treaty, the American administrator of the PCC must be replaced by a Panamanian by January 1990. The U.S. Senate will have to approve...