Word: nez
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Official Returns. Consternation seized green Miraflores Palace, the seat of the government. Junta Boss Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez used the confusion to shuck off the other two members of the junta, Colonel Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, Minister of Interior, and Germán Suarez Flamerich, the mousy professor whom the colonels had propped up as President. After two days, Pérez Jiménez got the signed support of Chief of Staff Felix Moreno, and went on the air to declare himself President. He announced baldly that "correct" election returns gave the government...
...nez' first crisis arose swiftly. Storekeepers, newsmen, students, and some of the workers for the great oil companies went on a protest strike. He hit back by closing schools through Christmas and threatening to cut off labor's social benefits. "Violence," huffed Pérez Jiménez, "accomplishes nothing...
...clandestine radio transmitters went new orders to A.D. members: to try to beat the junta, vote for Copei in two conservative regions, and for U.R.D. everywhere else. That was where the totally unexpected landslide of U.R.D. votes apparently came from. It was true that Pérez Jiménez was not yet unhorsed. But through his clumsy seizure of the presidency, he had placed himself and Venezuela further than ever from the democratic respectability they crave...
...string of angry little insurrections-some of them with the support of dissidents in the armed forces-flared across Venezuela last week. They were speedily quenched by Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez and his ruling military junta. The timing and dispersion suggested that a projected nationwide revolt had exploded prematurely. The uprisings...
...torturing of Mario Quiñónez could not be explained away as an isolated case, the work of a few sadistic cops. Other Guatemalans have been hauled off and tortured in recent months, often for no apparent reason except that they, like the brothers Quiñónez, were members of anti-Communist organizations...