Word: virgilio
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Cano, an outspoken opponent of Colombia's drug cartel, is believed to be the victim of the country's ruthless cocaine kings, who annually murder dozens % of judges, police and journalists who attempt to expose their activities. After the shooting, an angry President Virgilio Barco signed back into law a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty that had been invalidated by a technicality, and decreed stiffer penalties for drug violations. Barco, who attended Cano's funeral, denounced the drug lords as men "with no God" who "stop at nothing...
...nation known for its fiery orators, Virgilio Barco Vargas is a notable exception. While campaigning for President, Barco plodded through speeches with all the verve of an engineer explaining a blueprint. Supporters of the 64-year-old liberal were reduced to saying, "Virgilio may be a bad candidate, but he'll make a great President." Colombians evidently agreed. When the May 25 ballots were tallied last week, Barco was elected by the largest landslide in the country's history. The M.I.T.-trained engineer, who monitored the results on his computer terminal, won 58% of the vote, vs. 36% for Conservative...
...first major setback came when Arturo Cruz Porras, widely considered to be the strongest opponent facing Sandinista Presidential Candidate Daniel Ortega Saavedra, decided once and for all three weeks ago not to run, claiming that the regime would not allow him to campaign freely. Then the next strongest rival, Virgilio Godoy Reyes of the Independent Liberal Party, announced last week that he too was dropping out. "There are not sufficient guarantees for an electoral process," said a Liberal Party official. "The results could not sincerely reflect the majority will of the Nicaraguan people." If that were not enough, Bishop Pablo...
...race. The Sandinistas' leading rival now is the Independent Liberal Party, which advocates a mixed economy at home and strict nonalignment. Some Nicaraguans view the Liberals, not the Coordinadora, as the true voice of democracy in the country, but others consider the party's presidential candidate, Virgilio Godoy Reyes, 50, a former Labor Minister, too close to the Sandinistas...
Members of Concilium accuse their critics of a narrow misreading of the ideas of liberation theology. Virgilio Elizondo, president of the Mexican-American Cultural Center in San Antonio says, to "label Liberation theology as one that follows Marxist analysis is to oversimplify the situation." Moreover, he claims that there has been an unfair emphasis on the alleged use of arms to effect social change...