Word: ortiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fleet of small, open fishing boats. In an interview with TIME, Grenada's Socialist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop claimed that "one of the reasons Cubans are in Grenada is because the Americans aren't." He said it took ten days after the coup for U.S. Ambassador Frank Ortiz to assure him that the U.S. would not intervene on behalf of Gairy, a bizarre advocate of voodoo and flying saucer research. The Prime Minister also said that Ortiz gave him a list specifying which nations Grenada could establish relations with. ("We are a soverign country and nobody...
...Somoza's, claimed that the Sandinistas were executing "thousands" of guardsmen and their families. In fact, the 3,000 guardsmen locked up in Modelo Prison at Tipitapa, 30 miles from Managua, insist that they have been well treated. Asserted the prison's security chief, Marcio Maierna Ortiz: "We want our revolution to be an example to all of Latin America...
...Administration is, in effect, encouraging oil producers to raise their already extortionate crude prices all over again. After all, why not do so if the U.S. keeps coming up with fresh schemes for paying the money? That seemed OPEC's view, as its secretary general, Rene Ortiz of Ecuador, declared last week that he would like an increase of at least 25%, to a new base of $20 per bbl., when the cartel meets in Geneva on June...
...agent approached him, Harvey began walking rapidly away, and was seized. He was carrying a starter pistol. As he told his story, Secret Service and FBI agents tried to check it out. They found the man Harvey knew as Julio, but he gave his name as Osvaldo Espinoza-Ortiz, 21. He admitted being an illegal alien from Mexico...
...mainstream political parties. One of the group's five members, Alejandro González Malavé, 21, was an undercover agent for the police. He and the two youths stopped a cab on the outskirts of Ponce last July 25. At gunpoint they forced the driver, Julio Ortiz Molina, to take them up a remote mountain road...