Word: quinonez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agents waited and watched for days outside a rundown apartment building in Washington, D.C. Finally, at 10 p.m. last Thursday, their chance came. Clelia Eleanor Quinonez, 53, surrounded by three of her captors, walked out of the building and across the street to a phone booth, where she was to call her husband and assure him that she was unharmed. The agents moved in swiftly, arrested the trio and freed Quinonez, the wife of a former Salvadoran ambassador, who had been kidnaped from her home in Florida a week earlier. "I was flabbergasted," she said, praising...
...gang of Central Americans and Americans was allegedly responsible for the kidnaping. Three of them had waited in the bushes to grab their victim as she pulled her Mercedes into the driveway of the Quinonez home in the wealthy Miami suburb of Coral Gables. They then drove her to the hideaway in Washington. Calling from telephone booths in Miami and Washington, they negotiated with her husband, Export-Import Dealer Roberto Quinonez Meza, for a ransom of $1.5 million. Disobeying the kidnapers' orders, Quinonez had notified the FBI the first day of the abduction and had taken calls from...
...Quinonezes were members of the "14 families," the wealthy oligarchs who controlled El Salvador's economy and military until 1979. Roberto Quinonez Meza was Ambassador to the U.S. from 1977 to 1979, when General Carlos Humberto Romero was overthrown in a coup. Quinonez moved to Miami, where he has been outspoken in opposition to Communism in Central America. But the FBI was skeptical that the kidnaping was politically motivated...
...government. With 40% of the vote, Duarte's party seemed assured of a leading role in the new assembly. But the five rightist parties, who collectively polled 60%, had other plans. Their leaders met the morning after the election at the home of Salvadoran Popular Party Leader Francisco Quinonez to begin talks on forming their own coalition. Led by D'Aubuisson's ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), with its 29% of the vote and 19 assembly seats, the five parties were held together mainly by personal animosity to Duarte. "The fact is," explained one foreign diplomat, "Duarte...