Word: nez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...encountered the American volunteer doctor from the medical school described by the Inspector. Among all the other broken fragments, it somehow did not seem so unnatural that the doctor was a Cuban-but from a family of exiles living in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Dr. Raúl Jirménez, 31, had made his way to the hospital soon after watching the first paratroopers dropping from the sky near his home facing the stretch of wide white beach known as Grand Anse. He had been here ever since. The hospital, he said, had no X-ray machine, little oxygen...
...future meetings," said a smiling Colombian President Belisario Betancur as he posed with the seven Salvadorans. "The dialogue for peace in El Salvador has been directly initiated." But when asked to give a thumbs-up, thumbs-down verdict on the session, Peace Commission President Francisco Quiñónez evasively thrust his thumb sideways. Later, he described the meeting as "a total disappointment...
...standard ingredients of the oil business, Mexican-style. The sordid revelations are the latest, and most titillating, evidence of the widespread corruption that flourished under President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's predecessor, José López Portillo. Last week Senator Ramón Martínez Martín, a former leader of the teachers' union, called for a complete investigation of the allegations of wrongdoing. If proved, he said, the charges against one of Mexico's largest unions "would be considered crimes against the economy and against the oil workers...
...seemingly indelible charisma, the party has had a near mystical sway over a vast poor and working-class constituency. Today, however, the Peronists are torn by factional feuding, an affliction that many members believe could be cured if only Isabel (born Maria Estela) Martínez de Perón, the dictator's widow, would assert herself. Isabelita, as she is widely called, was ousted by the military in 1976 and banned from politics after a disastrous 21-month reign as Argentine President. She fled to self-exile in Spain, but last week the government restored her political rights...
With those words, Victor Giménez Landinez, Venezuela's Ambassador to the Organization of American States, summed up the plight of the 26 Latin American and Caribbean nations that met last week in Caracas, Venezuela. Just one year ago, Western bankers and public officials were scrambling frantically to avert a worldwide financial crisis as several Latin American countries tottered on the brink of default. The moneymen have since lent more than $45 billion to Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American nations to help them pay interest on about $275 billion in loans...