Word: magana
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...spend too much time addressing might hold the key to averting economic disaster. While Latin America has been newsworthy of late for the turmoil of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, the President will visit none of those countries, though he will meet briefly with Salvadoran President Alvaro Magana and Guatemalan leader Gen. Efrain Rios Montt in Honduras. The U.S. is spending several hundred million dollars a year in military assistance to prop up governments in El Salvador and Guatemala and to topple the Sand inista regime in Nicaragua. Costa Rica and Honduras, concerned by the Nicaraguan arms buildup, are diverting...
...Salvadoran civilians and at least six Americans over the past three years. The State Department said that the Hinton talk, which had been cleared in advance, represented a brief change in tactics but not in policy. Officials explained that since the election of Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magana last April, the U.S. has repeatedly told El Salvador's leaders that continued U.S. aid depended on the fulfillment of three conditions: 1) an improvement in the human rights record, 2) a continuation of the U.S.-backed land reform begun in 1980 and 3) a return to full civilian rule...
What outraged Duarte was the sweeping nature of the resolution. President Alvaro Alfredo Magana's original proposal was to continue the exemption, first enacted last year, of cotton and sugar cane acreage from the so-called land-to-the-tiller reform decree, which enables tenant farmers and sharecroppers to acquire plots of up to 17 acres from their landlords. The suspension, for one growing season (a year for cotton, three to four years for sugar cane), was aimed at ensuring high production of two of the country's leading exports at a time of economic strain...
...working session, the capital was abuzz with rumors that the Christian Democrats and part of the P.C.N. had agreed to name Magaña provisional President. The right, it was assumed, would also agree to give the Christian Democrats some role in the assembly leadership. But when headlines proclaiming Magana's imminent election appeared in the afternoon paper, D'Aubuisson reportedly became furious and rearranged the list of candidates for the nine-man assembly directorate to exclude all Christian Democrats. When the vote took place, D'Aubuisson and his fellow rightists easily swept all the assembly posts...
Despite ARENA'S opposition, Magana may still be elected provisional President. In any event, the choice could have more symbolic than real meaning. The provisional President may have little power to resist the assembly, which is expected to have the authority to approve all legislation as well as the new constitution. By controlling the assembly, D'Aubuisson might in effect end up running the country...