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Guatemalans are bracing for a January 7 runoff election after frontrunner Alvaro Arzu, a popular reform-minded industrialist, fell short of the 50 percent majority he needs to win. His opponent is Republican Front leader Alfonso Portillo, the hand-picked choice of former dictator Efrain Rios. "This election is being closely watched by the international community, which fears that a Portillo victory would mean a serious setback for democracy," TIME's Mike Leffert reports from Guatemala City. "Business is also worried that a Portillo win could threaten privatization projects and guarantees for property rights." Weary of their country...
...according to reports in The New York Times and by the Associated Press. An investigation by Frederick P. Hitz, the CIA's inspector general blames the agency for not sharing important information about the killing of American innkeeper Michael DeVine in June 1990 and the March 1992 disappearance of Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, the husband of American lawyer Jennifer Harbury, with U.S. administration officials and Congress. President Clinton ordered the internal investigation in March 30 after allegations by Representative Robert G. Torricelli, Democrat of New Jersey, that a CIA informant was behind the deaths of DeVine and Velasquez...
...Guatemala's intelligence service--was linked to the murders. Last week Torricelli released an anonymous letter, supposedly from a National Security Agency employee, claiming that the CIA and the Pentagon knew early on about Alpirez's connection to the killings of American Michael Devine in 1990 and Guatemalan guerrilla Efrain Bamaca Velasquez in 1992. (Bamaca was married to an American lawyer, Jennifer Harbury, who conducted hunger strikes in Guatemala and Washington to pressure authorities for information about her husband's murder.) The letter goes on to accuse the NSA and Army of destroying documents that would show U.S. "involvement...
...living on water and an electrolyte solution, those sleepless nights on a foam pad in front of the National Palace in Guatemala City and outside the White House--did win Jennifer Harbury some answers. Last week she learned of an intelligence report linking the death of her husband, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, a comandante in the Guatemalan guerrilla forces, to a Guatemalan army colonel who had once been a paid informant for the CIA. She said, "The truth shall make you free...
...When there is an investigation about the death of an American citizen, withholding information about those responsible and circumstances about that murder is not bad policy, it's a crime," said Torricelli in demanding a formal investigation. At issue are the deaths of innkeeper Michael Devine in 1990 and Efrain Bamaca Velasquez in 1992. Bamaca's American widow, Jennifer Harbury, staged a 32-day hunger strike in Guatemala City last fall and began a fast in front of the White House 12 days...