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...Bank's exclusive authority doesn't give it creative license to invent new styles of currency that stray from the technical specifications laid out in the Monetary Law. "The government couldn't just start circulating cacao beans and say it's currency like the indigenous did," says economist Nestor Avendano. "They have to respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Nicaraguans, New Currency Is a Hot Potato | 5/23/2009 | See Source »

...problem seriously.'' The Zapatistas are relatively confident that their prime demand will be met: the removal from office of Eduardo Robledo, the p.r.i. governor whose August election--in the same balloting that elected Zedillo--was deemed fradulent by the rebels. With Zapatista backing, the losing p.r.d. candidate, Amado Avendano, has already been installed as symbolic head of a ``government in rebellion'' in San Cristobal de las Casas, the colonial state capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAGES OF REBELLION | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...MENDEZ MONTENEGRO, 47, leader of the liberal Partido Re-voludonario (P.R.) that was outlawed in last October's M.D.N.-sponsored quickie election as too Communist, despite the fact that he once went into exile after plotting against Arbenz. Reinstated by the regime of current Provisional President Guillermo Flores Avendano, Mendez Montenegro calls Communists "my worst enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Voting Showdown | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

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