Word: gregorio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels' shadowy National Governing Council is a troika chaired by General Eduardo Abenina and filled out by Lieut. Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan, mastermind of the last two coup attempts, and General Jose Maria Zumel, a renegade officer loyal to the cause of Marcos. In a phone call, Abenina told TIME that the rebels could count on about 60% of the military for support. Soon, he said, they will begin a new phase of the rebellion, destroying property and, perhaps, waging a campaign of political assassinations...
...left sleeves they bore a strange white patch with the letters RAM-SFP. The first three initials identified the men as members of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, an organization of Young Turks that was thought to have been disbanded after its leader, the renegade former Lieut. Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan, 41, staged the coup that nearly toppled President Corazon Aquino more than two years ago. The second set of letters stood simply for Soldiers of the Filipino People. Asked what they were up to, one marine said, "We are here for our country." And then they began...
...from behind their barricades. Neither side made an attempt to threaten the other. It was, said one of the advisers, a "Mexican standoff," during which they talked to the rebels periodically. "At times it was friendly, at times tense," said another American. Finally, the Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, Gregorio Rosa Chavez, mediated the release of the occupants of the hotel and the escape of the rebels. The U.S. soldiers, though, refused to leave until the Salvadoran army had checked for booby traps and mines...
Mutinous soldiers questioned refused to say who directed the revolt. Rebel soldiers said the leaders included renegade Lt. Col. Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan, who led an August, 1987 coup attempt in which at least 53 people were killed...
...half-hour before the 6 p.m. curfew, Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez, the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, arrived at the hotel...