Word: robertos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supported by the U.S. because of its progressive land and banking reforms. But a right-wing coalition headed by ARENA and the P.C.N. won control of 34 of the assembly's 60 seats and boldly moved to seize power. It gave the assembly presidency to ARENA Leader Roberto d'Aubuisson, 38, a former army major with alleged links to the country's notorious death squads, and then sought to put one of its own men at the head of the new provisional government...
With those words, Roberto d'Aubuisson, 38, the charismatic leader of El Salvador's right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), tried to allay the fears generated by his designation as President of El Salvador's new constituent assembly. D'Aubuisson, who was once described by former U.S. Ambassador Robert White as a "pathological killer," had just assumed a key position in a country racked by left-wing insurgency and right-wing terror that have left some 30,000 people dead since October 1979. D'Aubuisson's election was an apparent defeat not only...
...Reported by Roberto Sum/Tehran
...triumph of the democratic process. But in the end, the moderate, U.S.-backed Christian Democratic government of President Josè Napoleón Duarte received only 40% of the popular vote and won only 24 seats in the 60-member constituent assembly. By contrast, two right-wing parties, Major Roberto d'Aubuisson's ARENA and the once powerful National Conciliation Party (P.C.N.) together received 55% of the vote, winning 33 seats. The two parties quickly created an informal coalition...
...Christian Democrats. The party of the military governments that ruled the country before the 1979 coup, the loosely organized P.C.N. seems to be divided into two main factions: a rightist wing, led by Secretary-General Raul Molina Martinez, and a moderate wing, led by ex-Army Colonel Roberto Escobar Garcia, whom one foreign diplomat calls "the best man they...