Word: nez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crackdown was provoked by the taped television appearances of right-wing Politician Leonel Sisniega Otero and of Ríos Montt's former junta mate Colonel Francisco Gordillo Martínez. Maintaining that Ríos Montt had reneged on his promises as soon as he came to power, Sisniega declared that he could not call the President "a dictator, because he isn't good enough for that. He is a tyrant." Gordillo, whom Ríos Montt muscled out last year, accused the general of having tried to pay him to resign quietly. Gordillo then threatened...
Much of the anxious talk in Tegucigalpa centers on one man: General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, 45, the fervently anti-Communist commander in chief of the Honduran armed forces. When Roberto Suazo Córdova was sworn in last year as Honduras' first civilian President in a decade, Alvarez vowed that the army would be at the service of the state. But growing U.S. military involvement in Honduras may have weighted the delicate power balance in favor of Alvarez. Critics argue that Alvarez, who was scheduled to visit Washington this week, now plays such an important role...
General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, many Hondurans believe, wields more power than the country's President. Alvarez, 45, met with TIME to voice his views on the Central American crisis. Excerpts...
...aclever propaganda ploy. Shadowed by bodyguards in the venerable Mexico City Foreign Correspondents Club, Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 51, president of El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), a leftist political alliance that boycotted last March's elections, faced an overflow audience. Alongside was Ana Guadalupe Martínez, a representative of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist-led organization that unites the country's five guerrilla factions. Ungo and Martínez announced that their groups had offered to begin unconditional direct negotiations with the Salvadoran government to end the country's three...
...agricultural reform were murdered one night 21 months ago. Even as paint and plaster were being applied, there were complaints of another cover-up in what has come to be known as the "agreform murders." On grounds of insufficient evidence, Salvadoran Judge Héctor Enrique Jiménez Zaldivar on Oct. 1 released an army officer accused of ordering the murders. Said a U.S. embassy statement: "We are dismayed and incredulous...