Word: echeverr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bishops' letter was quickly followed by criticism from other quarters. In a peculiar but highly publicized campaign, an obscure army general, José Echeverría Vielman, bought time on television to appeal to the President to separate the army from all government activities and to call National Assembly elections immediately. Shortly after that, Secretary-General Mario Castejón of the National Renovation Party accused Ríos Montt of using his influence to help his church, the California-based Christian Church of the Word...
...Montt, who only a few months ago enjoyed support for ending the repressive regime of his predecessor and for quelling guerrillas in the Guatemalan countryside, responded to the latest criticism by forcing Echeverría into retirement and ordering the arrest of Castejón and two other political foes on charges of "injuring the presidency...