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	Alfonso Portillo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera (born September 24, 1951) is a Guatemalan politician.
		In April 1995 Portillo, along with another seven of the DCG's 13 deputies, left the party to become independents after the parliamentary group was accused of corruption.
		Confirming this postulation in June 1999, Portillo launched a campaign in favour of bringing morality into political life, to implacably fight corruption, to defend the indigenous population and the poor campesinos against the small, urban, white elite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfonso_Portillo (868 words)

	Alfonso Portillo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera (born September 24, 1951) is a (A republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; noted for low per capita income and illiteracy; politically unstable) Guatemalan politician.
		In April 1995 Portillo, along with 7 of the other 13 DCG deputies, left the party to become independents after the parliamentary group were accused of (Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)) corruption.
		Portillo immediately recognised that he had shot the 3 students, but claimed it was self defence.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alfonso_portillo.htm (960 words)

	The Examiner - World News - 28, December, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In his victory speech, Portillo, a populist lawyer, said: ‘‘this triumph is not of Alfonso Portillo.
		Portillo called for national reconciliation and he promised to continue to implement the 1996 peace accords, which ended a 36 year civil war between the government and leftist rebels.
		Portillo, 48, has admitted killing two men while he was a student in the Mexican state of Guerrero in 1982 and fleeing the state to avoid being put on trial.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1999/12/28/fpage_6.htm (336 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| 'Killer' earns landslide victory in Guatemala
		Self-confessed killer Alfonso Portillo has won a landslide victory in Guatemala's first presidential election since the end of the country's brutal 36-year civil war three years ago.
		Mr Portillo, a close ally of one of the country's most brutal dictators, immediately promised to uphold the 1996 peace accords, which ended decades of conflict between the government and leftist rebels.
		Mr Portillo is a charismatic, former university professor who relied on popular discontent with rising crime and unemployment and deepening poverty.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/579778.stm (584 words)

	Guatemala's New Defense Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo’s surprise move to replace his defense minister was a routine decision and not a sign of unease between the president and the outgoing minister, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
		Portillo’s decision to name a colonel – 20 generals were left by the wayside – sparked widespread discontent in the military and rumors of an attempted military coup.
		Portillo was swept into office last January on a populist wave of good feelings, but his popularity nosedived during the year, with some opinion polls giving him an approval rating of little more than 30 percent.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/Anthro/GSN/newdefenseminister.htm (574 words)

	Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo has formally asked the OAS to name a representative to a commission of inquiry that will look into illegal, underground security forces operating in the Central American country.
		During a visit to OAS headquarters on April 11, Portillo explained that his government was committed to addressing the challenges posed by illegal groups "that are preventing effective enforcement of the rule of law in Guatemala." He said the commission would be established within 90 days.
		Portillo, whose term ends this year, also noted that his government has asked the OAS to send a team of observers to monitor the electoral process that culminates with presidential elections in November.
	www.oas.org /oasnews/2003/may_june/english/art7.html (190 words)

	DEL ENEMIGO EL PRIMER CONSEJO
		Alfonso tells Serafina that he will go to Spain to fight with Fernando against the Moors and that they can then spread the word that he has been killed in a duel so that she can keep his inheritance.
		Alfonso is also to offer power and favors to Ascanio to try to get him to pay attention to Serafina, in the hope that if she wins him she will no longer want him.
		Alfonso tells Ascanio that the Emperor is appointing him (Ascanio) governor of Milan and indicates to him that he must pretend to love what he hates and hate what he loves, just as Alfonso will do.
	www.trinity.edu /org/comedia/chittenden/DelEne.html (1284 words)

	Molina 1
		Portillo is opening the door to the younger officers, but at the same time he is taking the old leadership off positions of command.
		Portillo admits that the memo was sent to him, but says that the decision was his.
		Portillo's promises to attend to the needs of the vast poor majorities and fully comply with the peace accords are precisely the measures opposed by his main economic and military supporters.
	www.kansasfolks.net /Guatemala/Partnership/Pages/Issues/molina1.htm (2363 words)

	Alfonso VI on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alfonso was defeated again in 1108, and his only son died in the battle.
		Alfonso's reign gave a great crusading impulse to the reconquest of Spain and was also notable for the exploits of the Cid.
		Alfonso's court at Toledo became the center of cultural relations between Muslim and Christian Spain.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/alfon6s1p.asp (467 words)

	The "Drugocracy" of Guatemala - February 28th 2003 Spectre Magazine
		By deferring to the military and the nation’s other extremist power brokers, a weak government led by President Alfonso Portillo is either unwilling or unable to halt a spate of human rights violations or stymie the long existing, but now rapidly growing, narcotics trade.
		Portillo’s suspected connections, or at least tolerance of the military-based death squads and the drug trade, his seemingly abundant ties to organized crime, and the explosion of rights violations under his government offer an immutable justification for the U.S. to have applied maximum pressure on the Guatemalan government.
		Portillo’s administration is so hopelessly corrupt and embroiled in the drug trade, there is no absolute guarantee that the aid being extended is even addressing the appropriate problems.
	www.spectrezine.org /global/Drugocracy.htm (3260 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Guatemala
		In the runoff on December 26, Alfonso Portillo (FRG) won 68% of the vote to 32% for Ã“scar Berger (PAN).
		President Portillo pledged to maintain strong ties to the United States, further enhance Guatemala's growing cooperation with Mexico, and participate actively in the integration process in Central America and the Western Hemisphere.
		Portillo also promised to continue the peace process, appoint a civilian defense minister, reform the armed forces, replace the military presidential security service with a civilian one, and strengthen protection of human rights.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Guatemala (6442 words)

	Warrant issued for ex-Guatemalan leader - Boston.com - Latin America/Caribbean - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Portillo, whose four-year term ended in January 2004, and fled to Mexico and took up residence there as the corruption scandal grew.
		Portillo is accused of authorizing the transfer of $16 million from the finance department to the defense department, where investigators allege much of it was converted to cash and pocketed by officials close to Portillo.
		Portillo was granted a Mexican work visa and currently lives outside Mexico City, where he is an adviser to a construction materials distributor owned by a friend.
	www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/07/19/warrant_issued_for_ex_guatemalan_leader (225 words)

	Oct. 1999: Guatemala: Seeking new ground in Rios Montt's shadow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alfonso Portillo is younger than Berger and harder to classify.
		Portillo is an economist by profession, eloquent, quick and clear when it comes to making proposals...
		Portillo has steadily risen in the polls, gaining over 12 percentage points in four months to establish his current 2.9 percent lead over Berger.
	www.rtfcam.org /report/volume_19/No_5/article_7.htm (2284 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Guatemala's 'absent' president
		Mr Portillo defended himself against opposition accusations that he had made himself absent as the country suffered a series of crises.
		During this period the country was hit by a major teachers' strike and a financial scandal allegedly involving a friend of the president.
		And Mr Portillo is reported to have avoided most of the country's media organisations since mid-January.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/americas/2829199.stm (360 words)

	Americas 2001
		Portillo promised a veto if he found that the bill was likely to damage the interests of journalists.
		González has been a leading financial contributor to Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo Cabrera's political campaigns, and Rabbé himself is a former executive in González's media empire.
		In a February 22 letter to President Portillo Cabrera, CPJ urged him to ensure that all journalists in Guatemala are able to work without fear of threats or intimidation.
	www.cpj.org /attacks01/americas01/guatemala.html (1996 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Guatemalan prosecutor requests extradition of former president from Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Portillo is accused of authorizing the transfer of US$16 million (euro13 million) from the finance department to the defense department, where investigators allege much of it was converted to cash and pocketed by officials close to Portillo.
		Portillo last year was granted a Mexican visa to work as an adviser to a construction materials distributor owned by a friend.
		Portillo admitted in 1999, while running for president in Guatemala, that he had killed two of his former students while a professor in the southern city of Chilpancingo in 1982.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050727-1316-guatemala-ex-president.html (371 words)

	New Gerardi report termed inadequate
		Portillo had said in his inaugural speech in January, and reaffirmed several times since, that he knew something about who was responsible for the assassination of Gerardi, the auxiliary bishop of Guatemala City.
		Portillo said he would share twhat he knew with prosecutors.
		Had Portillo released a report on the Gerardi case that pushed the generals even further, he could have paid a heavy political price.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/110300/110300f.htm (975 words)

	Alfonso VI on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After Alfonso's marriage (1666) to Marie Françoise of Savoy, daughter of the duc de Nemours, the young queen took a hand in government.
		Alfonso was confined in the Azores until 1674 and at Sintra thereafter.
		Alfonso Cuarón desdeña la crítica a 'Grandes esperanzas': no me gusta estar en la posición de defender mi película.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/alfon6p1or.asp (422 words)

	KeepMedia \| Newsweek: The President's Past
		More than 600 people attended, including Alfonso Portillo, then 31, a Guatemalan who had lived in Mexico since the early 1970s and was working as a law professor at a nearby university.
		Portillo then fled to Mexico City, where, despite a warrant for his arrest, he studied economics for the next few years, returning to Guatemala in 1989.
		But Portillo, who is allied with a former military dictator, used it to enhance his appeal......
	keepmedia.com /pubs/Newsweek/2000/01/10/316441?extID=10037&oliID=229 (253 words)

	NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Political & Economic Affairs, including Cuba (formerly EcoCentral); November 11, ...
		Portillo said that he expected to take more than 50% in the first round but that he was ready to deliver another "knockout" if necessary.
		Portillo lead by a comfortable margin in pre-election opinion polls, but in the final days of the campaign Berger closed the gap with strong support from voters in the capital to force a runoff.
		Analysts also suggest Portillo's strong showing comes in part from disappointment with President Alvaro Arzu's failure to carry out all the peace accords, which were supposed to eliminate some of the social and economic inequalities that fueled the civil war.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/claea/h99/claea.19991111.html (2586 words)

	Military of Guatemala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An agreement signed in September 1996, which is one of the substantive peace accords, mandated that the mission of the armed forces change to focus exclusively on external threats.
		However, both former president Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen and his successor president Alfonso Portillo have used a constitutional clause to order the army on a temporary basis to support the police in response to a nationwide wave of violent crime.
		The accord calls for a one-third reduction in the army's authorized strength and budget — already achieved — and for a constitutional amendment to permit the appointment of a civilian minister of defense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_of_Guatemala (347 words)

	Oct. 1999: Portillo: Is a murderer about to become Guatemala's president? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In September, Alfonso Portillo, presidential candidate for the rightist Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), admitted that he had shot and killed two men during an altercation in Mexico in 1982.
		Portillo accused the ruling party, the National Advancement Party (PAN), of leaking the story to the press to damage his campaign.
		Portillo was teaching at the Autonomous University of Guerrero at the time of the killings.
	www.rtfcam.org /report/volume_19/No_5/article_8.htm (337 words)

	NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Political & Economic Affairs, including Cuba (formerly EcoCentral); January 20, ...
		Before the second-round vote, Portillo said he would be taking over the presidency at a time when the nation was on the verge of economic collapse.
		Portillo recently acknowledged that he has signed a "political pact" with Rios Montt but said it guarantees his political independence from the general.
		Portillo said the appointment would be temporary and that a civilian would replace Estrada in a few months.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/claea/h00/claea.20000120.html (2086 words)

	IPI - International Press Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Portillo won the country’s first presidential election since the end of the civil war by portraying himself as a "man of the people," but his close ties with Ríos Montt drew criticism from human rights leaders.
		Cantón’s visit came at the request of President Alfonso Portillo who had asked the OAS to examine the state of press freedom in Guatemala in order to prove that the government was not behind Canal 13's decision to close the television programme "Temas de Noche" on 2 February.
		Portillo won the country’s first presidential election since the end of the civil war by portraying himself as a "man of the people" and promising to end class privilege and discrimination against the country’s majority Mayan Indians.
	www.freemedia.at /wpfr/Americas/guatemal.htm (6023 words)

	visita_portillo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During a recent visit to the OAS, Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo said the eradication of corruption is one of the main pillars of his government.
		Portillo spoke shortly after making official his country’s ratification of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, as well as the Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Arms Acquisitions.
		Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo (center) signs documents ratifying the anti-corruption treaty, in the presence of Foreign Minister Gabriel Orellana Rojas (left) and OAS Secretary General César Gaviria.
	www.oas.org /oasnews/2001/English/July_2001/art1_14.html (206 words)

	Mexico grants work visa to Guatemalan president dogged by corruption allegations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Portillo left office on Jan. 14 and fled to Mexico on a tourist visa a month later after he was implicated in an alleged corruption scandal.
		Portillo appeared in person at the Mexico City migration office to request the change in his visa status, but he lives outside of the capital, the official told The Associated Press.
		Portillo admitted in 1999 that he had killed two men while he was a student in the Mexican state of Guerrero in 1982, and that he fled the state to avoid a trial.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/08/18/international1023EDT6636.DTL&type=printable (359 words)

	GCSN Situational Analysis May 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Opposition groups, recovering from the stunning blow Portillo dealt them at the polls and in the early days of his presidency, launched late last year a relentless campaign to expose the government's shortcomings, thereby adding to the image of an administration set adrift.
		For example, on March 15, Portillo announced that in order to bring down prices on chicken he was opening up the market by doubling the quota of imported chicken parts at special tariff rates and reducing the tariff on it from 5% to 0%.
		Although on the home front Portillo's economic policies are erratic and often inconsistent, when it comes to policy that affects trade with the North the administration has shown complete obedience to the world's largest economic powers.
	www.gcsn.org /situ/situmay01.html (4065 words)

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