Word: maldonado
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...Guevara Rodriguez, the latest officer to represent the mainstream of the conservatives who have controlled the country for 27 years. Two other conservative groups are contesting the election, as is a coalition formed by the Christian Democrats, the nation's major moderate party, whose candidate is Attorney Alejandro Maldonado. More than 200 Christian Democratic Party members have been murdered since 1980, mostly by right-wing death squads. The leftists have no candidate. TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter accompanied the moderates for a day on their unusual-and frightening-campaign trail. His report...
...Maldonado campaigners have traveled 8,000 miles and reached more than 200 of Guatemala's 326 villages in a dusty parade of vehicles crawling over the jagged rock and dirt trails that pass for roads in the remote areas. On one occasion, they even foiled an ambush apparently intended for them: after being followed too long by the same cars, they set up a roadblock and surprised their pursuers, discovering an arsenal of weapons and explosives. The men were carrying police identity cards. Such dangers have hardened the Christian Democrats into political missionaries...
...latest escalation in warfare is also casting a shadow over Guatemala's presidential election, which is scheduled for March 7. The army and the government have agreed on their candidate: conservative Brigadier General Anibál Guevara, a former Defense Minister. His main opponents are Alejandro Maldonado, a lawyer and former Guatemalan Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mario Sandóval Alarcón, an outspoken right-winger who sports a pearl-handled revolver and has threatened that if elected his government would kill 1,000 "Communists" a week...
Highly-touted Candy Maldonado looks so good at Albuquerque (PCL) that one official said the Dodgers would try to move Reggie Smith or Dusty Baker after this season. The right-handed hitting outfielder hit .305 at Lodi last season with 25 homers, 102 runs batted in and 63 stolen bases, and is piling up big numbers against AAA pitching so far. "He can hit for power and average, and he'll be a great one," a Pacific Coast League-watcher said...