Word: factionalized
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Since every faction in the Cabinet bears responsibility for its share of abductions, the government has no interest in public discussion of this issue. But to placate the women, the Cabinet last week set up a committee to determine the fate of the missing and win the release of the survivors. International Committee of the Red Cross officials have already visited about 120 hostages held by the various militias...
...have a guest in your house, the first week you have breakfast and the talk is friendly," explains Jorge Arturo Reina, leader of a dissident faction of Honduras' ruling Liberal Party. "After a month, your wife begins to ask when he is leaving. The second month, you ask him directly what his plans are." Nor is any foreign military presence likely to be popular in a country in which barely half the population is fully employed and per capita income is only $600 a year. Although in the present fiscal year the U.S. is committed to sending Honduras...
...many Americans, Roberto d'Aubuisson, fiery leader of El Salvador's fiercest right-wing faction, represents the dangerous pitfalls of U.S. support for that troubled country. Somewhat similarly, Edén Pastora Gómez, the maverick "Commander Zero" of the Nicaraguan revolution who later took up arms against his victorious comrades, has come to illustrate the troubles of Washington's covert effort to put pressure on the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Both of these flamboyant figures happened to be in Washington last week just after the Senate voted overwhelmingly to cut aid to anti-Sandinista contra...
...accept the strikes and social reforms that accompanied pluralism. On February 23, 1981, some of them tried to crush the glass-slipper state with a military coup. They claimed the backing of the sovereign. Juan Carlos took to national television to denounce their power play and rally his own faction...
...Partido, a radical social democratic party, as a case study of the problems of democratizing Latin America. Utilizing field research and documents collected in Peru. Adams analyzed and update work on the party. The PAP is the largest party in Peru though it has never come into power. The faction is likely to gain power in the elections in 1985, but Adams is not optimistic about the chances for democracy in Peru. "Any part of its program that would be objectionable has been taken out," he says...