Word: hurtado
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...mass funeral-which was also the 74th anniversary of the Mexican revolution and therefore had to be commemorated, after a moment of silence, by a marathon and a parade-Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and several top officials helicoptered into ruined San Juan Ixhuatepec...
...negotiating drama has been heating up since June, when Secretary of State Shultz paid a surprise visit to Managua, Nicaragua's capital, largely at the urging of Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. In discussions with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Shultz inaugurated what amounts to a fight-and-talk approach to U.S.-Nicaraguan diplomacy. After years of shunning direct negotiations with the Sandinistas, Shultz agreed to open formal channels of discussion on improving relations. But the Administration made no move to abandon its pressure tactics toward Nicaragua, notably covert support for the contras and the scheduling...
...tyranny. Reason and understanding are superior to the illusion of the effectiveness of force." That advice from the rostrum in the House of Representatives, directed at the Reagan Administration's policies in Central America, came not from a Democratic Congressman but from Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, leader of a nation sandwiched between the U.S. and Central America, with a capital city nearly as populous as all of the isthmus' tiny republics put together...
...power in 1979. Conservative Businessman Leon Febres Cordero defeated his center-left opponent, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, by fewer than 100,000 of the 2.9 million ballots cast, but the vote occurred without incident and the armed forces did not intervene. When the result was announced, outgoing President Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea, who had quietly favored Borja, declared, "Democracy is winning ground in Latin America...
Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado visited Brasilia last week to confer with his Brazilian counterpart, Joào Figueiredo. The two leaders had some blunt words for their creditors. Figueiredo complained of high interest rates that "threaten to perpetuate our foreign debt problems." De la Madrid said, with much justification, that Latin America could not boost exports enough to pay its debts if creditor countries erected "ever increasing protectionist measures" against imports from the developing nations. The day before De la Madrid spoke, the Reagan Administration announced a cutback in the number of products allowed to enter...