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...promptly sold most of his Mexican assets, then crossed the border to his $250,000 town house in McAllen, Texas. There, García fired off a letter to President De la Madrid accusing Barragán and the alleged behind-the-scenes "godfather" of the union, Joaquín Hernández Galícia (alias La Quina, a diminutive for his first name) of bilking the union of more than $130 million, 20 times the amount he was accused of taking. García was in a position to know, he later claimed, because he had acted...
During his Palm Sunday sermon in San Salvador's Metropolitan Cathedral, Monsignor Arturo Rivera y Damas spoke of "this resurrection that renews our hope that sooner or later our people too will be revived." At that very hour, a recently elected member of the new constituent assembly, David Joaquín Quinteros, 42, a father of five, died at the Policlinica Hospital a mile away. Quinteros, a member of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), had been abducted the night before as he left a restaurant. Two hours later, he was found in a garbage dump with bullets...
...Joaquín Villalobos, 30. Commander of the People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), the second largest guerrilla organization and the one that is probably the least doctrinaire, Villalobos has been described in some leftist publications as a "militarist," meaning that he denigrates theory in favor of action. Unlike some of the other groups, Villalobos' E.R.P. did not stem from the Communist Party; its original members were largely radicalized Roman Catholics who resorted to kidnaping and urban terrorism...
...Prensa is the only Nicaraguan newspaper not aligned with the government, which also controls 80% of the radio and TV stations. As it chronicled the revolution's mounting failures, the daily, now edited by Chamorro's son, Pedro Joaquín Jr., 30, once more found itself the principal target of a regime that does not tolerate dissent. Chamorro's widow Violeta, an original member of the revolutionary government, resigned in March 1980, offering reasons of health, to concentrate on helping her son with the paper. One month later, La Prensa was paralyzed by a Sandinista-induced...
...Shutting down La Prensa," he said, "would be like killing Pedro Joaquín Chamorro all over again...