Word: junta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officers who ousted right wing president Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in the first military takeover in 19 years installed retired general Efrain Rios Monnt at the head of a three-man junta. Rios Monnt ran unsuccessfully for president...
...Administration, which backed the Lucas Garcia regime, has not yet said it it will support the new junta...
...Salvador. It looked at first like a victory for democracy. The coup that toppled rightist Dictator General Carlos Humberto Romero in October 1979 established a "progressive" junta that included civilian leaders. Trying to satisfy peasant expectations, the military-civilian junta later launched an ambitious reform program; it nationalized the core of the banking system and expropriated many of the larger estates for redistribution among the campesinos...
...preparing to follow whichever side ultimately wins out. Nor does there seem to be much enthusiasm about the March 28 election, which Washington hopes will produce a solid majority for President José Napoleón Duarte's moderate Christian Democrats. A veteran politician who returned from exile and joined the junta, Duarte is essential to the political solution that U.S. policymakers are banking on. Even if the guerrillas do not succeed in disrupting the balloting, the results could be fatal for the moderates: the right may get a significant representation in the government. That could lead to further polarization, halt...
Campaigning in the provincial town of Zacatecoluca last week, Duarte was doing his best to drum up enthusiasm for the election. Although he may well be the country's best political orator, he was guarded and defensive as he tried to explain why the junta had not brought either peace or prosperity to the country...