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Until June, the occasional coup attempt originated with two fringe groups: friends of the deposed Lucas Garcia or supporters of the right-wing politician Leonel Sisniega Otero. On June 28, however, senior military commanders met with Rios Montt and demanded that he fire his religious aides, disband an advisory group of young officers and set a date for early elections. The President pacified them by agreeing to fire the junior officers, but the effect was fleeting...
...once colleagues of the Sandinistas and today live in exile. The men are Arturo Cruz, the former junta member and Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington who quit in November 1981; Alfredo César, who like Cruz was once head of the central bank, and two other former government officials, Leonel Poveda and Angel Navarro. Though they are not affiliated with the anti-Sandinista guerrilla movements and in fact are calling for a "nonviolent" settlement to the fighting, the four have close ties with some factions of the Nicaraguan opposition, including the guerrillas, and might be able to hold...
...crackdown was provoked by the taped television appearances of right-wing Politician Leonel Sisniega Otero and of Ríos Montt's former junta mate Colonel Francisco Gordillo Martínez. Maintaining that Ríos Montt had reneged on his promises as soon as he came to power, Sisniega declared that he could not call the President "a dictator, because he isn't good enough for that. He is a tyrant." Gordillo, whom Ríos Montt muscled out last year, accused the general of having tried to pay him to resign quietly. Gordillo then threatened...
...Figueiredo's military backers, an even more alarming outcome loomed in the major southeastern state of Rio de Janeiro. There, a front runner in the gubernatorial race was Leonel Brizola, 62, a charismatic populist and onetime left-wing orator who was governor of Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul at the time of the 1964 military coup. Brizola, who used to extol the virtues of Fidel Castro, has been cited by military men as one of the reasons that they seized power in the first place. At week's end Brizola was leading...
...reform program cannot be divorced from the political context in which it takes place, just as U.S. economic aid cannot be neatly separated from military aid--both are tools to prop up a government directly responsible for the deaths of over 12,000 of its own citizens last year." Leonel Gomez, a former official in the land reform program, adds land reform has strengthened the hand of the military, "whose sole concern is for increased U.S. military and economic aid, for increased power, and an increased ability to rule, to kill, and to corrupt." The story of El Salvadoran land...