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...their countrymen in Mexico City than between Mexicans and Americans. The nortenos see themselves as more industrious and democratic than the others, whom they sometimes call guachos (the kept ones), accusing them of living largely off government services. "We started using computers in our business ten years ago," boasts Eugenio Elorduy, a prosperous Mexicali businessman. "In Mexico City, the computer boom is just starting...
Before the council could announce its ruling, however, the military closed ranks against the accusations. At an extraordinary press conference, the Defense Minister, General Eugenio Vides Casanova, denied the charges and underlined "the firm aim of the armed forces to comply with their constitutional commitment." With Vides Casanova as he spoke were 15 other top-ranking officers, the cream of the country's military and security hierarchy. Said Vides Casanova: "If somebody is trying to destabilize the elections, I'm sure they're not going to succeed." Five hours later the fraud protest was rejected...
...influence of liberation theology is strongest in Brazil, the world's largest and most populous (131 million) Roman Catholic country. Nonetheless, the debate over the propriety of that support continues to rage within the Brazilian hierarchy. Eugenio Cardinal de Araujo Sales, the conservative Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, charges that liberation theology "constitutes one of the gravest risks to the unity of the pastors and the faithful...
Meantime, Duarte was making his own deliberate progress from the capital, accompanied to the meeting by three political aides and Defense Minister General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, who was included as a further gesture of good faith to the guerrillas. As Duarte later told it, the emotional high point of his roughly two-hour trip to the talks came as his red Toyota pulled away from the last army checkpoint, 16 miles south of La Palma. Two officers stepped up to say goodbye. Recalled Duarte: "They said, 'God bless you, and may you bring back peace.' That means...
...barracks and personally ordering the battalion attack that retook the Cerrón Grande dam after it was overrun by guerrillas last June. On the other hand, he has dealt gingerly with a high command accustomed to calling the shots on and off the battlefield. The President retained General Eugenio Vides Casanova, 46, a career officer, as Defense Minister, but surrounded him with astute colonels led by Colonel Adolfo Blandón, 45, the easygoing, bespectacled chief of staff. In all, Duarte has retired or reassigned about 4,500 officers in the 45,000-man force...