Word: mendoza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DOLORES MENDOZA, SHIRLEY FETALVERO: These "ladies" are traditional strike breakers, or as the workers call them: "SCABS." Dolores is particularly loud-mouthed and abrasive. A small portly woman, she helped organize the "Mothers Against Chavez," composed chiefly of growers' wives and a few of Dolores's friends like Shirely...
...picket lines there is none of us workers, none of us people," Dolores Mendoza, Delano grape picker, told nationally syndicated columnist Ralph DeToledano. "They got the hippies from San Francisco, they got people from Mexico who never worked here before...
...General César Mendoza Durán, 54, is head of the paramilitary carabineros. A top horseman who competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Mendoza has been noticeably milder in his condemnation of leftists than his fellow junta members. Explains a foreign diplomat: "Mendoza knows that when the army gets tired of guarding itself and goes back to its barracks, his people will have to keep order...
...office in Santiago, an amiable military officer serving as censor was so anxious to avoid talk about "revolution" that he cut out references to it in a personal message that one correspondent sent to a colleague in Tokyo. When TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath relayed his file via the fragile Mendoza connection and turned in a copy to the censor, he was told: "We know all about your file. Naval intelligence was listening closely." Eisendrath protested the intimidation in a conversation with two army officers, arguing that journalists find it hard to report fairly while under duress. He was told...
...sworn in. Ominously, the new leaders took an oath of allegiance not to Chile's constitution but to the junta. General Pinochet headed the Cabinet as President of the junta. Its other members: Admiral Merino; General Gustavo Leigh Guzman, air force commander in chief; and General Cesar Mendoza Duran, director general of the carabineros. The most important portfolio in the new Cabinet−Interior−went to Army General Oscar Bonilla...