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Napolitano's paper was an analysis of Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, written for a course in the Spanish-American novel. In it she cited five quotations, appropriately footnoted, from a scholarly reference work by Josefina Ludmer. But after examining the paper carefully, Napolitano's professor, Sylvia Molloy, discovered that Ludmer was quoted far more often than the footnotes indicated. Molloy charged that Napolitano deliberately changed the page numbers of quotations cited by Ludmer to correspond to those in her own edition of the Garc...
...neighboring Guatemala, meanwhile, the group of junior officers who overthrew the repressive regime of General Fernando Romeo Lucas García last month has produced a dramatic change of atmosphere. The reason: the enthusiasm and apparent dedication of the born-again Christian who heads the three-man junta, General Efrain Ríos-Montt...
...shotgun-toting bodyguards have disappeared, as have the street-corner patrols of combat-ready paratroopers in flak jackets and tiger suits. Vigilante policemen are no longer seen in public. There are even reports that the new junta has disbanded the dreaded judicial police force that flourished under Lucas Garc...
That was the beginning of the end for the government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas García, which was widely considered to be one of the bloodiest and most corrupt regimes in all of Latin America. Lucas García's abrupt exit also meant that his hand-picked successor, General Angél Anibal Guevara, who was elected to the presidency on March 7 amid widespread charges of fraud, would not be taking over next July as planned...
...over events in its own backyard. U.S. analysts had been aware for several months of the rising dissatisfaction among the junior officers. Bearing the brunt of the fighting against the guerrillas, the lieutenants, captains and majors had become increasingly bitter over the corruption of the Lucas García regime, and wanted to clean up the country's human rights image in order to obtain U.S. military aid. They therefore called for fair elections and an end to el continuismo, the old-boy network of senior military officers that has ruled the country for the past 27 years. Instead...