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Each Sunday evening at 9, Rios Montt appears on national television to deliver a spiritual talk. The program be gins with a picture of a sunset over famed Lake Atitlán, followed by Rios Montt in civilian clothes standing in a garden filled with trees and chirping birds. "Good evening," he begins typically. "I sincerely thank you for the opportunity that you give me to be with you tonight. It cannot be any other way." Some Guatemalans, as a result, call their President "the maid" because, like household maids, he comes out on Sunday...
...appeared in all Guatemala's major newspapers, the national police had taken only seven days to solve the murder of Father Stanley Rother, 46, the red-bearded Oklahoma-born missionary who was found dead on the floor of his rectory last month in the mountain village of Santiago Atitlán. Three Indians from the area were arrested and charged with the killing, which authorities said was committed during a burglary...
...that the arrests were a frame-up to placate the U.S. According to "official sources" cited by Guatemalan newspapers, the police were led to the killers' trail largely by the testimony of one witness: Sister Ana Maria Gonzales Arias, a Mexican nun working as a missionary in Santiago Atitlán. Sister Gonzales was said to have told officials that she saw "various armed men" wearing hoods enter the church, where they were discovered by Father Rother apparently while they were "seeking to rob the church's money...
...Rother missed his village church near the banks of Lake Atitlán. And he missed the Indians, whose dialect he knew so well that he sometimes spoke it at Mass. Last April, when friends in Guatemala told him that the explosive political atmosphere had quieted down, he decided to go back. He told his family: "If I have to die, I will die there. I want to be there with my people...
Last week, after attending a traditional Indian fiesta in Santiago Atitlán, Father Rother died among "his people." Nuns found him in his rectory, lying in a pool of blood. Witnesses said he had been shot twice, once in the left temple and once in the left cheekbone, by three men wearing ski masks. His body was covered with welts and bruises, suggesting that he had put up a struggle. A strapping "Oklahoma farm boy," in the words of a friend, he had said that no would-be abductors would ever take him alive...