Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what it was under Manuel Noriega: a prime money-laundering center for drug cartels. And President Endara's problems extend well beyond the disapproval of his American benefactors. Some of his own colleagues complain about the influence exerted on Endara, 54, by his bride of five months, Ana Mae Diaz Chen, 23. Aides say the President's wife walks into Cabinet meetings uninvited to deliver messages to her husband, then hangs around to offer opinions, unfailingly seconded by Endara. "He lives in a cage," says one Panamanian official, "a very shapely 23-year-old cage...
...Ernesto Diaz Rodriguez detained since...
Chanes, 63, and Diaz, 51, were among Fidel Castro's original companeros, but after the Communists took control of Cuba in 1959, the two former guerrillas became disenchanted. Chanes, a security guard who served briefly in the revolutionary government, began to criticize Castro; Diaz, a fisherman and bus driver, joined a paramilitary dissident group in Miami. In 1961 Chanes was arrested for plotting to assassinate Castro, a charge human-rights groups believe was trumped up. Although Chanes' 30-year sentence expires next year, his former prison mates doubt he will be set free. Diaz was seized in 1968, while attempting...
Chanes and Diaz are kept in isolation at the Combinado del Este prison on the outskirts of Havana in a windowless cell so tiny they have no room to walk. Both are said to be in failing health...