Word: garc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parties geared up their campaigns last week, Defense Minister Josó Guillermo García announced that members of the armed forces would not be allowed to vote, apparently to avoid any charges of military interference. The junta, meanwhile, decreed its new election laws. The use of voter lists will be abandoned. The lists were often a source of fraud in the past. They have also been outdated by the many deaths and dislocations among the population, and they risked being boycotted by voters who fear being murdered if their name appears on a list having anything to do with...
...estimated $100 million in Venezuelan money has flowed into embattled El Salvador to prop up the civilian-military government headed by Christian Democratic President José Napoleón Duarte, who spent seven years of exile in Venezuela. Even the right-wing regime of Guatemalan President Fernando Romeo Lucas García, no friend of Venezuela's democratic government, has received an estimated $200 million in oil subsidies...
...Guatemalan President Fernando Romeo Lucas García, the arrests were timely and convenient. Father Rother's murder, widely believed to be the work of a pro-government rightist hit squad, had been a major embarrassment for Lucas Garcia's regime. The killing occurred just as the Reagan Administration was considering a resumption of the military aid that was cut off during the Carter years because of Guatemala's deplorable human rights record. The prompt arrests, however, seemed to vindicate the government's system of justice and disprove charges that its security forces may have been...
...week's end the government of General Lucas García refused to comment directly on the arrests or any other aspect of the case. Pressed for a statement, a spokesman for the presidential palace would say only, "There is violence everywhere in Guatemala...
...President Lucas García has not held up his end of the implicit deal. TIME has learned that the Presidential Palace sent out specific orders to curb the killing during Walters' visit in order to improve Guatemala's bargaining position. After Walters' departure, the death rate rose to a new high and is now averaging roughly 400 a month...