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When Rios Montt joined the coup that overthrew the government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in March 1982, he made for a refreshing change. Rios Montt reduced corruption and abolished many of the government-sanctioned death squads that had haunted the country. Though his tactics cost the lives of thousands of innocent Guatemalans, the new leader succeeded in subduing a threat by 4,000 leftist guerrillas last year...
Until June, the occasional coup attempt originated with two fringe groups: friends of the deposed Lucas Garcia or supporters of the right-wing politician Leonel Sisniega Otero. On June 28, however, senior military commanders met with Rios Montt and demanded that he fire his religious aides, disband an advisory group of young officers and set a date for early elections. The President pacified them by agreeing to fire the junior officers, but the effect was fleeting...
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...Garcia. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington
FICTION: Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer ¶Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez The Feud, Thomas Berger ¶The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco Pilgermann, Russell Hoban ¶Sister Age, M.F.K. Fisher