Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jose E. Llana Seabrook, Texas...
...blow to the guerillas, a demonstration to the whole world that the people want peace and tranquillity." So declared Jose Maria Fuentes, 65, a craggy-faced carpenter in the provincial city of Chalatenango last week after his fellow citizens had queued up to vote in El Salvador's constituent assembly elections. In cities and towns across the embattled country, more than 1.5 million men and women braved guerrilla threats - and in some cases dodged bullets - to cast their ballots. Defying widespread predictions of a dismal turnout, at least 80% of the electorate - twice the normal figure - took part...
Nineteen-year-old Orlando Jose Tardencillas proudly confirmed that he had voluntarily joined rebel troops in El Salvador after fighting to overthrow the Somoza regime in his native Nicaragua. He denied, however, ever having been to Cuba or Ethiopia and said that he had been coerced into that lie by U.S. officials after his capture by Salvadoran National Guardsmen last year. Describing brutal torture in a Salvadoran government jail, he said that U.S. Embassy representatives offered him a simple choice: "They gave me an option. They said I could come here or face certain death. All my previous statements about...
REGARDLESS OF WHERE Orlando Jose Tardencillas learned to handle his rifle, parading a committed revolutionary in front of the TV cameras under a death threat cannot possibly be classified under "Thoughtful Argumentation" in the State Department hand-book. Even if the young man had recited his lines on cue, would that have proved he was telling the truth or that the Salvadoran civil war can be attributed to Communist infiltration via Nicaragua...
...next day, in a news conference at the general staff headquarters, Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia replied to the inevitable questions: "Yes, there have been reports of some foreigners ... yes, black..." But in the end Garcia could not confirm that the Cuban existed. Perhaps the distinguished members of the press would be interested in a Nicaraguan prisoner-a commandante?Outside the room, ABC Producer Frank Manitzas performed a little skit, complete with Cuban accent: "Sure he was a Cuban. There he sat, with a big black cigar in his mouth, and said, 'Oye, chico-got a light...