Word: jacobo
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...chill through the Tribunales courtroom in Buenos Aires. There, six judges are presiding over a trial in which nine top military leaders, including three former Presidents, are charged with responsibility for a broad sweep of crimes. "There has never been anything like this in Latin America," says Journalist Jacobo Timerman, who himself was imprisoned and tortured. "Imagine -- civilians sitting in judgment on the military...
...extreme closeup, as in Argentine Publisher Jacobo Timerman's chilling book Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, blood is blood and terror is terror. Withdraw to the appropriate distance, however, and the spectacle of a society obstinately destroying itself becomes a depersonalized, absurd comedy. The author, an Argentine now living in Mexico, withdraws all the way to Olympus. There Athena and Aphrodite, no less, concern themselves with protecting the hapless members of an apolitical poetry group that meets each week in Buenos Aires. They have been denounced to the police, and a surveillance has been mounted...
...expressed confidence that the other armed movements will sign similar agreements, a recent rash of bombings, bank robberies and kidnapings suggests the contrary. These acts of violence are believed to be the work of other guerrilla groups that oppose the ceasefire. But F.A.R.C.'s second-in-command, Jacobo Arenas, remained firm. Said he: "We are going to give the President a little more strength by keeping our part of the peace bargain...
...case of Guatemala illustrates perfectly what befalls a country when its own policies oppose U.S. interests. In 1950, the State Department, beset with Cold War fever, grew frightened at the presence of a small number of Communists in the liberal coalition of popularly elected president, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. After Arbenz under took a program of land reform in a country where two percent of the population owned close to 75 percent of the land, U.S. officials said they sniffed Communist influence. The Guatemalan government's subsequent confiscation of uncultivated land owned by United Fruit Company prompted the U.S. to begin...
...involved in two important coups a few years later. In Iran, American influence was solidified by the overthrow of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's Soviet-supported regime in 1953 and the installation of the Shah. When the Guatemalan government of left-wing President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán threatened to expropriate the property of the United Fruit Co. and other U.S. interests, he was toppled in 1954 and replaced by a pro-American regime. In both cases, the interventions were successful but left a legacy of anti-U.S. bitterness...