Word: montevideo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though more soft-spoken than his predecessor, Castro is equally committed to social justice. Born in Montevideo, Castro was one of nine children of a Spanish immigrant mother and Chilean father. The family was Roman Catholic, but as a youth he played with children from a nearby Methodist church. Says Castro, a short, slender man with an infectious smile: "I ultimately found Jesus Christ through my personal contacts. It was not a church-to-church conversion...
...TIME'S People section my photo was published with "a mysterious Chilean admirer" who, says the article, was accompanying me from Chile to Montevideo and was living with me in the same hotel. Unfortunately, I myself can classify this article as inaccurate...
First, this woman is not a Chilean. She is Uruguayan, and she has no reason to live with me in the same hotel because she has a home in Montevideo. Secondly: in the photo she appears alone with me, but at our side, at the same time, were many of my Uruguayan friends and friends from the Russian embassy who, together with her, accompanied me to the airport where I disappeared alone to Bogota. Third: in the photo she is at a distance from me of no less than 50 centimeters. Thus through TIME, I wish to advise...
Sindona also discussed his involvement with Calvi and other members of the Italian Masonic Lodge P2 in sending Banco Ambrosiano money to Latin America to support right-wing political causes. "Calvi financed newspapers for ideological reasons in Buenos Aires and Montevideo...
...Argentines demurred, the patrolling U.S. Navy corvette Lexington went to wreak vengeance. Commander Silas Duncan attacked Vernet's headquarters at Soledad, spiked all the cannons, blew up all the ammunition, sacked the settlement, and sailed away with seven of Vernet's aides in irons (they were eventually released in Montevideo, but Argentine demands for compensation went on for 53 years...