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Much of the anxious talk in Tegucigalpa centers on one man: General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, 45, the fervently anti-Communist commander in chief of the Honduran armed forces. When Roberto Suazo Córdova was sworn in last year as Honduras' first civilian President in a decade, Alvarez vowed that the army would be at the service of the state. But growing U.S. military involvement in Honduras may have weighted the delicate power balance in favor of Alvarez. Critics argue that Alvarez, who was scheduled to visit Washington this week, now plays such an important role...
...Guatemala the Israelis have sold the government everything from antiterrorism equipment to transport planes. Army outposts in the jungle have become near replicas of Israeli army field camps. At one such outpost in Huehuetenango, Colonel Gustavo Menendez Herrera points out that his troops are using Israeli communications equipment, mortars, submachine guns, battle gear and helmets...
...operation has already had unfortunate side effects on Honduras' fragile democracy. After years of military rule, the Hondurans elected Roberto Suazo Cordova last January as their first civilian President since 1971. The troubles in neighboring countries have given Chief of the Armed Forces Gustavo Alvarez Martinez an excuse to extend his authority. He has won changes in the constitution that broaden his power, and is using the threat of a Sandinista invasion to bolster his military forces and consolidate his power within the country...
...candidates. "I don't understand." Suddenly, a red tear-gas canister landed in the street, scattering the group of journalists who had accompanied the candidates. Sniper fire popped like firecrackers a block away. Finally, the three presidential candidates?Mario Sandoval Alarcón, Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre and Gustavo Anzueto Vielman?offered to go alone to present their grievances to the authorities. The candidates never made it to the presidential palace. Instead, they were taken to police headquarters and lectured by Police Chief General German Chupina for almost an hour...
Though the point is well taken, Maryknoll's reputation is complicated by the existence of Orbis Books, a religious publishing house the society established in 1971. Orbis has become a leading outlet for radical social thinking from Third World theologians. After Peru's Father Gustavo Gutiérrez produced his influential A Theology of Liberation in 1971, Orbis issued the English-language edition. Gutiérrez's most recent essay for Orbis blesses the class struggle and condemns "imperialist" corporations and "reformist" strategies of social change that forestall the revolution...