Word: garcã
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...regime of General Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores to reverse the economic slump and doubt that a civilian government may be able to do much better have revived support for the country's leftist guerrillas. "There are many people in this country living in misery," says Benedicto Lucas Garc??a, a retired general and former Chief of Staff who directed a ruthless anti-insurgency campaign in 1980 and 1981 that had the rebels on the run. "That's why the guerrillas are growing stronger...
...assembled in the dusty market town of Casa Grande. Normally toiling in nearby sugarcane fields, the villagers stood in the withering heat waiting for an apparition from the sky. As a whining white air force helicopter came into view, the crowd spotted the broad, beaming face of President Alan Garc??a Pérez, waving a white handkerchief in greeting. "Alan!" thundered the crowd as the helicopter set down in a swirl of dust. "Alan! Alan...
After wading to the platform through a sea of outstretched hands, the lanky, self-assured Garc??a, 36, delivered the kind of rousing, nationalistic exhortation that audiences across Peru have come to expect. "A government of the people," he declared, "is a government where the people produce their own history." In countless speeches in the countryside, in the slums of Lima and from the balcony of Government Palace, Garc??a has spread the same message: the 19 million people of his hardscrabble country can shape their own destiny, even in the face of desperate poverty...
...office a mere six months, Garc??a has already established himself as one of the most admired and influential leaders in Latin America. Part preacher, part pedagogue, he is praised for injecting new vigor into a crippled government and moribund economy. In addition, he has shaken boardrooms from Wall Street to Tokyo with his defiance of the multinational banks that hold many of Latin America's burdensome loans. His July inauguration made front-page news in Western capitals when he used it to announce that Peru would spend no more than 10% of its export earnings for interest and principal...
After dinner, those in attendance applauded the senior honorees—Leyla R. Bravo ’05, Martha I. Casillas ’05, Claudia I. Garc??a ’05, Priscilla J. Orta ’05, and Omar A. Urquidez...