Word: marcial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of Panamamans we meet the revolutionary elite of Central America, from Damel Ortega, a member of Nicatagua's ruline runta, to 'Marcial' the nom deguette of the Ho Chi Minh of the Salvadoran revolution In his description of these figures Greene forgets Castro's advice to Torrijos Prudence and caution are precisely what is lacking in his glowing as counts of his meetings with these leaders While Greene clearly shares Torrijos' dream of a social democratic Central America he does not explore the threat that Ortega and Marcial pose to this dream. Marcial, who killed himself last year...
Greene, whose prolific output of thinking man's thrillers has taken him to many places as confused as Central America, should have known better than to take the words of Ortega and Marcial at face value. But they are not the point of the book. While Getting To Know The General is dedicated to "the friends of my friend, Omar Torrijos," its real goal is to eulogize the Panamanian leader. To the list of the General's accomplishments, not the least of which was setting Panama on the road to becoming only the second Central American nation to form...
...lived to a ripe old age for a Salvadoran revolutionary mainly because of a fanatical obsession with security. Until recently, he and his closest lieutenants always wore hoods at meetings to hide their real identities even from one another. Carpio was known only by his nom de guerre, Marcial. His daughter Guadalupe, also a Communist organizer, was killed during a political demonstration in El Salvador in 1980. The guerrillas' campaign in El Salvador, Carpio says, "has been a struggle of twelve years. Twelve years of spilling the blood of very valuable comrades, hundreds of the most valuable...
...under the F.M.L.N. umbrella. Cayetano owes his survival to his emphasis on security. Before their amalgamation with the other groups a year ago, Cayetano and his subordinates wore hoods so that they were not known even to each other. Cayetano himself was known only by his nom de guerre, Marcial. British Author Graham Greene, who pleaded unsuccessfully with Cayetano last summer to spare the life of a kidnaped. South African diplomat, said of him: "His eyes, they are hard. I wouldn't like to be his prisoner...