Word: ochoa
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...Until then, their profits had largely come from smuggling cars, liquor and electronic appliances into the country and sneaking cattle, emeralds and coffee out. Then, it seems, Pablo Escobar Gaviria, an entrepreneur whom Colombian bankers describe as "a self-taught administrator with a genius for organization," convinced Smuggler Fabio Ochoa of the profits to be earned from cocaine. The two took over the domestic industry and sent murderous local toughs, now known as cocaine cowboys, to seize control of the U.S. wholesale market...
...parts of the country. The Ballad's final release is due to a dedicated effort on the part of several Chicano artists who had made it in mainstream film. The credits include an amazingly large number of Spanish surnames--Moctesuma Esparza, producer; Edward Olmos, lead; Raymond Villalobos, cinematographer; David Ochoa and H. Frank Dominguez, executive producer...
...they were attracting recruits faster than the CIA could arm and train them. An apparently worried Nicaraguan government had responded by calling in more outside help. According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, some 1,200 Cuban military advisers had been spotted in Nicaragua following a visit by General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, once the head of the Cuban force in Angola. Also, in the first six months of 1983, Nicaragua had received eleven shiploads of arms from Soviet bloc countries, just three fewer than came in during all of last year...
...danger of war between Nicaragua and Honduras. "If you had 15,000 to 20,000 Cuban troops in Nicaragua, you might do something bold." That unsettling possibility certainly seemed remote enough, but late last week TIME learned of the recent arrival in Managua of Cuba's General Arnaldo Ochoa, Castro's leading specialist in expeditionary forces. "This," says an Administration aide, "is ominous. It worries the hell...
...Administration. The President has until Jan. 23 to submit his semiannual certification to Congress that El Salvador's government is making progress on human rights and is carrying out land reform. Without the statement, the President must immediately cut off all military assistance. State Department officials described the Ochoa-Garcia duel as "absolutely not germane" to the certification, and said last week that the Administration would once again rule in El Salvador's favor. Washington officials noted with satisfaction that the number of politically motivated murders was now below 200 a month, down from an average...