Word: cerezo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Puerto Rican police gunned down two radical supporters of independence in 1978, the executions kicked off a scandal that helped bring down a Governor and resulted in the convictions of ten policemen for perjury. Last week in San Juan, U.S. District Court Judge Carmen C. Cerezo sentenced former Police Agent Luis Reveron Martinez to the maximum 25 years. A witness has accused Reveron Martinez of killing one of the independentistas with a twelve- gauge shotgun as the victim knelt before him. Earlier three other policemen had each received 20-to 30-year prison sentences...
...winners was the center-left Christian Democratic Party, led by Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, 41, which captured 22 Assembly seats. Tied for first place was the moderate Union of the National Center, led by Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 51. Guatemala's traditional ultrarightist party, the Movement of National Liberation, took 21 seats. Both Cerezo and Carpio predicted that they could fashion a majority by making deals with some of the 14 other parties in the contest...
...fragmented an already weak opposition by allowing minor civic committees to compete with existing political parties. He also abolished the Council of State, a relatively ineffectual body that had the merit of including representatives of the country's 4.7 million Indians. Says Christian Democratic Leader Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo: "The military can accept the democratic process, but not the loss of power...
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...