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There was no such controversy last week in Ecuador, which held its second presidential election since the military gave up power in 1979. Conservative Businessman Leon Febres Cordero defeated his center-left opponent, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, by fewer than 100,000 of the 2.9 million ballots cast, but the vote occurred without incident and the armed forces did not intervene. When the result was announced, outgoing President Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea, who had quietly favored Borja, declared, "Democracy is winning ground in Latin America...
...DIED. Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, 40, Colombia's Minister of Justice; by assassination, when two gunmen on a motorcycle pulled up to his car and shot him eight times with a machine gun; in Bogota. The first Colombian law-enforcement boss to wage a vigorous campaign against his country's powerful drug traffickers, Lara refused to wear a bulletproof jacket despite death threats. One of the two hitmen died immediately when the motorcycle crashed; the other, captured minutes later, claimed that "everything was arranged in Medellin," center of Colombia's $5 billion-a-year drug trade. After...
...condition of the Catholic Church during the Renaissance papacies is enough to leave Jews, Moslems and Protestants snickering and to send Catholics scurrying for their rosary beads. The indulgences of Innocent VIII, the depravity of Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia bought himself the papacy and used it to benefit his illegitimate children), and the wars of Julias II left Rome bankrupt. When Cardinal Giovanni d'Medici became Pope Leo X, declaring "God has given us the papacy--now let us enjoy it", he was desperate for money and decided to sell the only thing he could--pardons. Full-scale simonry continued...
...Rica has begun to experience tremors of violence that in some cases can be traced to the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua, whose rise Costa Ricans enthusiastically abetted. Providing sanctuary and financial support for the Sandinistas during their 1979 revolution was a top priority of Monge's predecessor, Rodrigo Carazo Odio. Now, however, Monge is convinced that Nicaragua is becoming increasingly repressive and dangerously dependent on the Soviets and the Cubans...
...Rodrigo J. Montealegre...