Word: olancho
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Flores and other officers, some of whom insisted on anonymity for security reasons, said the Sandinistas penetrated an area of about 20 square miles inside Olancho province last week while chasing the U.S.-supported rebels in a two-week offensive to evict the Contras from Nicaragua...
About 200 border incidents have been reported in Olancho since the Contras began fighting the leftist Sandinista government...
...force the government to fulfill its promises to redistribute the land. June 25 was a memorable day in their campaign. While the army broke up "hunger marches" in various regions, wealthy ranchers, backed by soldiers, stormed a training center for peasant leaders in Juticalpa, the dusty little capital of Olancho province, and killed six people...
...priests are foreigners (from France, Spain, Canada, the U.S. and Latin America), the nominally Catholic landowners can more freely accuse them of being Communists, of mobilizing the peasantry and arousing hatred. Said Bishop Jaime Brufau: "These crimes were the result of a carefully planned attack on the church in Olancho...
Despite the murder indictments, the cattlemen are still riding high in Olancho province, a frontier area where they have long held near feudal control. The peasant leaders' training center in Juticalpa is still closed, and the federal government has ordered all priests, brothers and nuns to leave the area for their own safety. Bishop Nicholas D'Antonio, an American who has worked in Honduras for 29 years, has also fled upon orders of the papal nuncio. No wonder. Wealthy ranchers have offered $10,000 to anyone who delivers to them the bishop's head...
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