The World - News from Feb. 9, 1989
Two former Nicaraguan army officers ended nearly 10 years of political asylum in the Venezuelan Embassy in Managua and were given permission to leave the country, Foreign Ministry officials said. Col. Carlos O. Gutierrez, 62, and Capt. Mario Guerra Palacios, 42, boarded a commercial flight to Guatemala. Ministry spokeswoman Mercedes Borge said they will eventually travel to the United States to live in exile. The two fled into the Venezuelan Embassy on July 19, 1979, the day President Anastasio Somoza was ousted in a popular revolt.
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