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...latest escalation in warfare is also casting a shadow over Guatemala's presidential election, which is scheduled for March 7. The army and the government have agreed on their candidate: conservative Brigadier General Anibál Guevara, a former Defense Minister. His main opponents are Alejandro Maldonado, a lawyer and former Guatemalan Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mario Sandóval Alarcón, an outspoken right-winger who sports a pearl-handled revolver and has threatened that if elected his government would kill 1,000 "Communists" a week...
...feeling that it is difficult to say where politics ends and my music begins." In 1968 the premiere of his oratorio The Raft of the Medusa had to be aborted when Hamburg police burst into the theater to quell a political demonstration; the work is dedicated to Che Guevara. Henze premiered his Sixth Symphony in Cuba in 1969, quoting a National Liberation Front song in the score...
...tactics, all potential opposition voices to President Lucas García have been silenced, and political pluralism is dead. Though García cannot legally succeed himself in next March's presidential election, there is little doubt that a like-minded rightist, such as General Aníbal Guevara Rodríguez, the Defense Minister, will move into the palace in Guatemala City...
...Harvard. A Langdell tunnel map, which serves as the backdrop for several scenes, points the direction to Wall Street as well as to the cafeteria. One of the show's subplots involves the quarrels between the aspiring lady capitalist of the 1980s and her boyfriend, a self-styled Che Guevara--ever-ready to spout bleeding heart liberalism and Marxist structuralist dogma...
...sending food and money-to aid the Bolivian people rather than the military, he explained -"because we do not want in South America what Cuba signifies in Central America." The allusion was curious, considering that the Communists have not fared well in Bolivia since the failure of Che Guevara's 1966-67 effort to launch a people's war there...