Word: vez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, Duarte seems to be winning the confidence of the business community. Once considered objectionably socialist on economic issues, the President has moved closer to the center. Planning Minister Fidel Chávez Mena has promised to consult business and labor in drawing up a recovery plan. In the atmosphere of stability produced by Duarte's election, entrepreneurs are opening new businesses again. Many businessmen still distrust Duarte, but others are willing to give him a chance. "The President today has the respect he didn't have before," says Eduardo Menéndez, the head of a plastic...
...Salvador, the nation's two highest-ranking prelates became targets of a campaign of intimidation by death squads. In a terse communique delivered to a radio station, the rightist Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez Anti-Communist Brigade 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...
During a visit to Washington last week, Fidel Chávez Mena, El Salvador's Foreign Minister, expressed hope that the case will be resolved by late January, when the Administration must once again certify that the embattled country remains eligible for American aid. U.S. embassy officials in San Salvador, however, are not optimistic that the trial will persuade Congress that El Salvador has bettered its human rights record. Members of Congress have their eye on another case in which justice has proved less than speedy: accusations that high-ranking army officers ordered the murder of two U.S. land...