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...congressional staff member wryly after a visit. Guatemalans stroll the capital's streets again, night clubs are full and handguns are much less evident than before the March coup. Rios Montt has dismantled police and army death squads and put the national police chief, Germán Chupina, under house ar rest. He has also threatened that former Interior Minister Donaldo Alvarez Ruiz and other members of the old regime who have fled the country will be arrested if they return. In another attempt to under cut the guerrillas, the President has declared a broad amnesty, to begin this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: God's Man on Horseback | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

...three presidential candidates?Mario Sandoval Alarcón, Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre and Gustavo Anzueto Vielman?offered to go alone to present their grievances to the authorities. The candidates never made it to the presidential palace. Instead, they were taken to police headquarters and lectured by Police Chief General German Chupina for almost an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror, Right and Left | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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