Word: romero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdames, Archbishop of San Salvador...
Ever since the overthrow of Military Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero by a group of junior army officers last October, the civilian-military junta has been powerless to halt the violence. In an attempt to prevent civil war, the present governing junta of two colonels and three civilians, including the respected longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Party, José Napoleon Duarte, ordered up a two-pronged plan of radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from...
...junta. Part of a $50 million U.S. aid package has been earmarked to help get the program off the ground. Still, the reforms have been criticized both by the right, which called them "Communist-inspired," and by the left, which said they were merely "cosmetic." Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the regime, fears that the junta will use the reforms as an excuse to crack down even more ruthlessly on leftist sympathizers among the peasants. The junta, meanwhile, anticipating violence, announced a "state of siege," suspending constitutional rights, and deployed troops around banks and the largest farms...
...effort to avert all-out civil war, junior officers in the Salvadoran army had toppled the despotic military regime of General Carlos Humberto Romero last October and installed a five-man junta composed of two moderate colonels and three reform-minded civilians. The new government was immediately attacked by extremists on both the left and right. Further weakened by internal divisions, the junta was unable to stop the violence...
...P.D.P.), which wants to retain the island's Commonwealth status. Neither has campaigned here yet, and since the G.O.P. primary occurs in less than two weeks, the spotlight is now on the Republicans. Ronald Reagan dropped out in December, after failing to win the endorsement of Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, who is staying neutral, but Howard Baker, Bush and Connally have all done some Latin politicking...