Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Angry protesters confronted president Alfredo Cristiani of El Salvador last night as he arrived in Cambridge for a weekend visit to the Boston area...
Christian stopped in Cambridge after his visit to Washington, where he lobbied for continued aid to El Salvador. Secret Service officials at the Marriott said Cristiani was on a "private visit" and declined to release any details of his itinerary...
...little choice but to pursue a vigorous investigation. In the past, the few human-rights cases that have been prosecuted resulted in the conviction of only low-level military personnel. This time an irate U.S. Congress, which is considering $387 million in military and economic aid to San Salvador this year, demanded a thorough inquiry reaching into the highest levels of the Salvadoran military...
...into the residence of the Nicaraguan Ambassador to Panama and searched it for weapons, a blatant violation of diplomatic immunity. Managua retaliated by expelling 20 American diplomats. Still bristling last week, Ortega drew a nasty parallel between the ambush and the November slaying of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador, a crime many believe was committed by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran army...
...made an offer to Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, then on the National Security Council staff, to assassinate Nicaraguan Sandinista leaders and carry out sabotage inside the country. All the time, though, Noriega was allegedly running arms to the Sandinistas and to leftist rebels in Colombia and El Salvador, supplying CIA information to Cuba and helping Cubans smuggle U.S. high- technology equipment through Panama to the Soviet bloc. Said Jose Blandon, a former intimate of Noriega's: "Contras, Sandinistas, Cubans, the CIA, he deals with them all to make money...