Word: nicanor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicanor Yniguez, speaker of the national assembly, told a television interviewer that the assembly would begin an official canvass of the votes on Monday...
...scorn and iron will of Mrs. Thatcher. Even when the determination of the British was pointed out in crystal-clear terms, Galtieri replied, "Why are you telling me this? The British won't fight." In this judgment, I believe, he had the agreement if not the tutelage of Nicanor Costa Méndez, the Foreign Minister, who was reportedly the main opponent of my advice. On a number of occasions after Galtieri had showed some movement in the negotiations, Costa Mendez met with me privately and amended what his President had said, hardening the Argentine position and making resolution...
...offer some hope that he will abide by that promise. The lone military man, Army Major General Llamil Reston, who will be Interior Minister, shares Bignone's conviction that the armed forces must cooperate closely with labor and political leaders. Among the casualties of the reshuffle: Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez, an intellectual architect of the Falklands fiasco...
Whatever the extent of Soviet help, the Argentines seemed determined to get as much political mileage as possible out of their new overtures to the East. Last week Nicanor Costa Méndez became the first Argentine Foreign Minister to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro took power in 1959. In a startling scene, Costa Méndez embraced the Communist leader, who had done his best to stir up trouble in Latin America. Addressing a conference of nations professing nonalignment with the major powers, Costa Méndez then roundly denounced the "aggression of Great Britain" and said...
Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Méndez was sitting across from U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig as the Organization of American States met in Washington last week for an emergency session to consider the Falklands crisis. Staring directly at Haig during a virulent, 45-minute speech, Costa Méndez charged that U.S. support for Britain was "illegal and repugnant" and that the U.S. had "turned its back" on Latin America. He warned: "The future of the inter-American relationship is under threat." As Haig sat in stony silence, most of the assembled delegates gave the Argentine diplomat...