Word: meza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chief Justice Ayatollah Reza Laza Meza: Haj, you're a disgrace to your religion! I order you to read from the Koran continuously for 74 hours while soaking in a vat of boiling cat intestine...
Chief Justice Ayatollah Reza Laza Meza: Young man, we do not have the reputation as the most hateful nation on earth for nothing. The world expects us to bomb and maim, not to get ripped off by a bunch of satanic Americans. I sentence you to three years of hard labor pulling the food out of Khomeni's beard. In addition, I declare a national week of prayer. During this holy period, I would also encourage citizens to spit on pictures of the new Head Satan, George Bush...
...Honduran border town of San Marcos, "is with the kind of action the U.S. pulled off in that island of Grenada." For the moment, though, it seems that the tensions and motions of war will continue, with none of the ready solutions. "No one feels completely secure," says Victor Meza, a political analyst at the Honduran Documentation Center whose name recently appeared on a death list. "Somebody wants to create a climate in which we do not know where the violence is coming from." Whatever the source of that threat -- the contras, the Sandinistas or the newly active local paramilitary...
...July 1980, Garcia Meza wrenched power from civilian hands in what has become known as the Cocaine Coup. U.S. Bolivian Affairs Expert James Malloy wrote then that the Garcia Meza government was a "rapacious, uniformed kleptocracy," openly in league with drug dealers. As major suppliers of the coca paste that is processed into cocaine, Bolivian drug traffickers earn some $3 billion a year...
Modest economic progress, however, could be destroyed in a moment by another military coup. The government is confident that the Garcia Meza trial will not provoke one, but many officials privately doubt whether the former dictator will be brought to justice...