Word: garcã
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...blocked the avenue in downtown Guatemala City. They trained their rifles on the six unarmed men who were advancing, like prisoners of war, with their arms held high. One of them clutched a large manila folder. Its contents: a letter to Guatemala's outgoing President, General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garc??a, charging fraud in last week's presidential election and demanding a new contest. The politicians never delivered the letter; the police...
...possible spillover of neighboring upheaval, Honduras has good cause to rejoice: last December its voters made Roberto Suazo Córdova their first freely elected civilian President since 1971. The election was the result of two years of U.S. pressure on the corruption-riddled regime of General Policarpo Paz Garc??a. Though still in its fragile infancy, Honduran democracy can serve the region as a salutary model of popular government, and an example of the positive leverage that Washington can wield under the right conditions...