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...country's 22 regions, sabotaging public works and generally making life miserable for the army. But Washington couldn't resume aid to Gunmetal because of the prevailing climate of repression: Congress, already divided over arms sales to El Salvador, would undoubtedly have balked at sending guns to Garcia. And State Department envoys were having no success in convincing the general to moderate his policies. Guevara, minister of defense under Garcia, seemed no more likely to cooperate...
Washington of course denied any responsibility for the coup. But there is reason to doubt the Administration's claims of innocence Last January, reports appeared in The New York Times, based on accounts by anonymous U.S. army officers, that preparations were underway to topple Garcia. At the same time, the publisher of the Guatemalan newspaper La Nacion--who also happened to be Guevara's campaign manager--charged that a coup would take place after the elections. He added that a "foreign power" would direct the operation. The journalist, whose story was given little attention, was assassinated a few days later...
...days before the coup and in the midst of violent street demonstrations against Garcia and Guevara, a series of meetings between the U.S. ambassador and political parties unhappy with the outcome of the election took place. Also present more representatives of the Committee on Agriculture, Commerce, Industry and Finance (CACIF), the most powerful business organization in Central America that largely controls the Central American Common Market. The ambassador made clear Washington's unease with Guevara and the election procedures and said the Administration would rather count on a friendly government that benefited from a medium of legitimacy...
Maybe then, the importance of the coup is the rule the U.S. may have played in bringing it off. If Washington did organize Garcia's overthrow, then it would appear we have regressed back to the covert action days of the 1950s and 1960s. Such a policy gave Guatemala 28 years of military dictatorship and brought about the Bey of Plgs fiasco. And it characterizes the same mindset that led Presidents Johnson and Nixon to he to the American people about U.S. action abroad. We had all hoped that the crisis of integrity our government underwent was scrapped along with...
...Guatemala. Administration officials said last week Washington wants to revive military aid that came to a halt four years ago. Disgusted with human rights violations by the government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia. President Carter had harshly criticized Guatemala, forcing it to renounce U.S. military assistance. President Reagan, in a gesture of "good will" toward the month-old regime of Efrain Rios Montt, who took power in a coup, will send Guatemala some $4 million in spare parts for the American-made helicopters it uses to fight leftist rebels No matter that Rios Montt has so far reneged...