Word: willwerth
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...academy, a traditional route to the top. After the 1979 coup that removed General Carlos Humberto Romero and installed a reformist junta, D'Aubuisson was purged from the army by the new government. Excerpts from D'Aubuisson's session with TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth and TIME's Timothy Loughran...
When TIME Correspondent James Willwerth went to Mexico City in the fall of 1980, he anticipated a fairly quiet tour of duty. Says he: "I foresaw a few stories about the Mexican oil boom, an occasional look at Nicaragua's revolution, and a side trip or two to report on Mayan ruins." He was wrong. "I had been in the region a few weeks," he recalls, "when death squads in El Salvador wiped out the entire leadership of the only center-left group trying to work within that country's system. A few days later, Salvadoran national guardsmen...
...Willwerth, who served 14 months as a correspondent in Viet Nam, covering the Salvadoran insurgency has revived old and unwanted memories. "The countryside is strikingly similar to Viet Nam's," he says. "One afternoon, another reporter, also a Saigon press veteran, and I were sitting on a porch in northern Morazán province, looking out over a garden filled with tropical flowers. Just then a U.S.-made 'Huey' helicopter flapped overhead. We looked at each other, startled. Both of us had flashed back ten years to Viet Nam." Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter, on his third...
...troops began moving into the bustling town, a stronghold of the country's independent-minded Miskito Indians. Then, on a moonlit night just before Christmas, the Hondurans began hearing bursts of automatic rifle fire. An Indian mineworker, Roberto Vidal Poveda, 18, recounted his ordeal to TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, who talked to a number of Miskito refugees: "During the night, the Sandinistas took us out and started to kill us, one by one. They made me stand by the river, but I jumped when they started to shoot. Two bullets hit me in my arm. They shot...
...thatched lean-tos surrounded by jungle. It has become home for 5,100 Miskito Indians who fled across the border into Honduras. Another 3,000 to 5,000 are expected in coming weeks. Food shipments are infrequent, and many of the refugees had not eaten in three days when Willwerth visited...