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...charismatic personality attracted millions of the faithful, and his words and actions rarely failed to bring political reactions. He roared "Silencio!" to unruly Sandinistas who disrupted a Mass he was celebrating in Nicaragua; he made a surprise visit to the grave of El Salvador's martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero; and he bluntly told the government of dirt-poor Haiti, "Something must change here." In Poland he met with General Wojciech Jaruzelski and called for the unshackling of Solidarity, the banned labor union. He also met privately with his native country's most celebrated nonperson, Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lech...
...Julius Romero Manila...
...warned Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas and Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chávez that they would suffer "drastic consequences" if their Sunday sermons did not stop criticizing human rights violations and urging dialogue with leftist guerrillas. The menace was taken seriously: El Salvador's last archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was assassinated in 1980 after receiving similar threats. In a grisly reminder of the death squads' effectiveness, government soldiers last week unearthed the bodies of nine victims who had apparently been strangled for being involved in peasant unions that back land reform...
...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...
...Cartos Romero-Barrel Governor on Puerto Rica, said the agreed with many of Herrion's points, but added that the way to light for equity is to demand the full rights of statehood. And Ruffle Human in Colon, governor of the commonwealth from 1973 to called for economic last moment under the aegis of commonwealth hood...