Word: mejia
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Other major figures indicted were cartel kingpins Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, Jorge Ochoa Vasquez, Fabio Ochoa Vasquez and Gonzalo Mejia...
...indictment accuses Escobar, Rodriguez, Mejia, Reed and the two Ochoas of running a continuing criminal enterprise--punishable by a maximum life sentence--and conspiracy to import drugs...
Critics of the outgoing government of General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores contend that political kidnapings and killings, aimed mostly at peasants, union members and university students, persist. Families of the "disappeared" blame government security forces. Last week Cerezo announced that one of his first goals will be to clean up the security apparatus. He declared, "The army cannot limit the power of the head of the armed forces (the President), and if they try to do so, they will have to create a coup...
...second source of unrest was the harsh new economic measures promised by the government of General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores, including tax increases ranging from 15% to 50% on imported goods and new tariffs on most domestic products. When protests broke out in Guatemala City, the capital, Mejia Victores, who came to power in a 1983 coup, suspended the new taxes and called off the trip he had planned to take to the Vatican and the Middle East...
...Diana Mejia...