Word: ungo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duarte ran for President against Colonel Arturo Armando Molina Barraza, the candidate of El Salvador's ruling military-landowner alliance. Duarte's running mate was a high school chum, Guillermo Ungo.* Conservative businessmen were aghast at the duo's election promises of land reform and support for organized labor, and by the fact that a front organization for the illegal Communist Party was participating in its National Opposition Union. When Duarte appeared to be pulling into the lead, the government blacked out television coverage of the ballot counting and announced the following day that Molina...
...Ungo, a Social Democrat, joined forces with the guerrillas in 1980 and has now become their chief political spokesman...
...making a campfire out of the paper ballots. Three miles north of the departmental capital of San Miguel, posters warning of land mines were planted on the road, watched over by rifle-bearing rebels. Overall, the guerrilla attitude toward the election was summed up by their spokesman, Guillermo Ungo, who declared, "Votes are not the source of power, because there is no democracy in El Salvador...
What is the opinion about the elections among those who will not be taking part, the members of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación National (F.M.L.N.)and the Frente Democrático Revolucionario-or, more simply, the guerrillas and their political allies? F.D.R. President Guillermo Ungo, whom I encountered on a flight from Amsterdam to Central America, told me the elections will be meaningless even in the event of a massive turnout. "Voting is obligatory, and the people know that if they don't have a stamp on their identification papers showing they voted, they...
Kissinger and company met with Calero and with Guillermo Ungo, the political leader of El Salvador's rebel coalition...