Word: ochoa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bizarre rebellion ended as suddenly as it had begun. But when Lieut. Colonel Sigifredo Ochoa Pérez gave up his six-day mutiny against Salvadoran Minister of Defense General José Guillermo Garcia last week, the damage had been done. The incident highlighted what many analysts feel is a troubling obstacle to U.S. aims in the embattled Central American nation: a lack of discipline on the part of the Salvadoran military. All too often, its leaders seem to be more concerned with internal rivalries than with fighting left-wing guerrillas united under the banner of the Farabundo Mart...
...crisis began when Garcia, who was jealous of Ochoa's increasing prominence as a successful antiguerrilla fighter, ordered the 40-year-old officer to resign his command in the northern province of Cabañas and assume duties as military attaché in Uruguay. Ochoa refused. He declared his province a "free territory," and phoned a San Salvador radio station to demand that Garcia resign as head of the armed forces because he had shown himself incompetent in handling the country's three-year-old civil...
...embassy officials felt there was more to the dispute than Ochoa's reluctance to move to the diplomatic backwater of Uruguay. They speculated that Garcia had wanted to transfer the popular Ochoa in order to strengthen his own political ambitions as a potential challenger to right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson. Garcia has generally supported increased U.S. involvement in El Salvador and land reform, while D'Aubuisson has not. At the same time, U.S. officials feared that Ochoa, a military classmate of D'Aubuisson's, was being used by D'Aubuisson...
...blistered their feet. Some abandoned their shoes and wrapped their feet in rags soaked in the little water they had. The next night, three men were found near Highway 85. They insisted they were alone, apparently afraid of acknowledging they had left others behind. Says Border Patrolman Hector Ochoa: "If they had told us the truth, we could have saved most of them." Not until Yolanda Estela Hernandez, 20, was found beside the highway the next afternoon did authorities learn that others were in the desert...