Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delvalle left the house last night to protect himself," Delvalle's brother-in-law Raul Diaz told reporters. He declined to say where the former president was but added: "He must be in Panama...
...there seemed an ultimate unseriousness about Paris in May, the events in Mexico City some months later were a trauma and tragedy. Mexico, under President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, was preparing to play host to the Olympics. But the mood of students, intellectuals and much of the middle class had soured on the Diaz government's authoritarianism. On Oct. 2 some 10,000 people gathered at Tlatelolco Square. Late in the afternoon, hundreds of soldiers hidden in , the Aztec ruins opened fire, while secret-police agents in the crowd drew pistols and began making arrests. That night army vehicles carried...
...State Department officials expressed surprise; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz and Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez were considered likelier choices. While Salinas, like De la Madrid, is favorably disposed toward Washington, he is expected to keep his distance lest he offend Mexican sensibilities. "Salinas is hardheaded enough to know that Mexico's future is bound to the U.S. and not to a tiny Third World country in Central America," says a European diplomat based in Mexico City, referring to Nicaragua. "But there has to be a little prickliness in the relationship for it to be right...
...Cuba's intelligence chief in Prague on June 6, drove an embassy car across the border to Austria, and introduced himself to U.S. diplomats in Vienna. His crossover came just nine days after the defection of another high-ranking Cuban official, Air Force Brigadier General Rafael del Pino Diaz, who has also been heard on Radio Marti...
...government also announced that Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera -- who kicked off the cycle of protest on June 7 when he accused Noriega of corruption, electoral fraud and murder -- had signed two depositions withdrawing his allegations. Diaz has been in jail since a Panamanian army raid on his house on July 27. Speculation was that Diaz signed the documents as the price for exile in Venezuela...