Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Customs officials searched the aircraft and found nearly $6 million in $100 and $20 bills in the suitcases of one of the passengers. They arrested the owner of the luggage, Francisco Guirola Beeche, 34, a wealthy Salvadoran businessman, and his two companions. Guirola is a friend of Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing Salvadoran politician and foe of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The three men were later indicted in Corpus Christi, Texas, on charges of conspiring to transport undeclared currency...
...most wanted by drug-enforcement officials in Bolivia. Yet to some of his countrymen, Roberto Suarez Gomez, 53, sometimes known as the King of Cocaine, is a folk hero, portraying himself as a modern Robin Hood to Bolivians disillusioned by years of official corruption. In their book, Bolivia: Coca Cocaina, Authors Amado Canelas Orellana and Juan Carlos Canelas Zannier say that Suarez's popularity springs from the fact that his wealth originated "in the depravity of the Yanquis (drug abuse in the U.S.) and not in the robbing of the coffers of the state...
...Suarez's son, Roberto Jr., also wanted in connection with the sting, was arrested in Switzerland for carrying a false passport. He was subsequently extradited to Miami--Suarez maintains that he was kidnaped--to stand trial for cocaine trafficking. In response, the elder Suarez published an open letter to President Reagan in the La Paz daily El Diario, offering to turn himself in on two conditions: his son be released and the U.S. pay off Bolivia's entire foreign debt. The issue became academic when a Miami federal jury acquitted Roberto...
Above all, Siles, who in 1982 inherited a presidency that had changed hands 13 times in twelve years, is well aware that challenging his people's livelihood could bring about his political demise. Warns an aide to Roberto Suarez Gomez, one of the country's most flamboyant coca suppliers (see box): "U.S. pressures could lead to another revolution and a takeover by another repressive military government or, worse, by the leftists...
Duarte not only returned, he returned to run for President again, this time against Roberto d'Aubuisson, a cashiered army major with a brutish past and some unlovely friends. The whispered threats resumed, but Duarte persevered through a March election and May runoff to capture 54% of the vote. The U.S. proclaimed Duarte's victory proof of El Salvador's progress toward democracy, but the new President cautioned against great expectations. "Are we going to arrive at perfection?" he asked. "It is a satisfying thought, but I think not. We are human...