Word: policarpo
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...Domingos Policarpo accused Ramos-Horta of starting the civil war in East Timor and then leaving his suffering country for a life of ease elsewhere...
...having a good life abroad talking in the name of the people of East Timor.... He doesn't really know what is going on in East Timor", Policarpo said...
...threatened by the possible spillover of neighboring upheaval, Honduras has good cause to rejoice: last December its voters made Roberto Suazo Córdova their first freely elected civilian President since 1971. The election was the result of two years of U.S. pressure on the corruption-riddled regime of General Policarpo Paz García. Though still in its fragile infancy, Honduran democracy can serve the region as a salutary model of popular government, and an example of the positive leverage that Washington can wield under the right conditions...
Since then, there has been some progress toward democratic reform. The current provisional President, General Policarpo Paz Garcia, has agreed to cede power to a civilian government that will be elected next year. Last April's voting for a Constitutional Assembly gave a majority to the old Liberal Party, which was last in office in 1963, and made its leader, Roberto Suazo Córdova, 53, the front runner in next spring's presidential contest. Meanwhile, the Paz Garcia government, relatively moderate for a military regime, has raised minimum wages and begun to redistribute land in an effort...