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...Reagan Administration. Last week officials in Washington said the U.S. will end a four year freeze on arms sales to Guatemala to help the month old Rios Month regime fight leftist guerillas. The Administration claims Rios Montt, who took power through a coup against the extreme right Lucas Garcia government, has already significantly improved human rights conditions in Guatemala. So, the Guatemalans will receive $4 million in spite parts for the American made helicopters they are using against the leftist rebels. In addition, Washington wants to give Rios Montt $50,000 in military training funds for fiscal year...
When Lucas Garcia took office in 1978 political violence which had been widespread in Guatemala for several decades increased dramatically. Moderate politicians were murdered of forced into exile by rightist death squad and thousands of Indian peasants were killed in an effort by Lucas Garcia to wipe out the left's popular base of support. After harsh criticism by the Carter Administration. Guatemala renounced...
Last March, Guatemala held elections that were widely believed to be fraudulent, Gen. Anibal Guevara, Minister of Defense under Lucas Garcia, was chosen to lead the country. Rios Montt's coup a week later prevented Guevara from assuming power this summer...
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...P.C.N. at first lined up with D'Aubuisson's coalition. But the Christian Democrats hoped to win over some moderate deputies. One problem, said a foreign diplomat, is that both Molina and Escobar Garcia were "talking to different people and saying different things. [The P.C.N.] is not being led by any one person. Trying to understand them is like tying up with a lot of horses. The party is wavering." Another wavering group, the Democratic Action Party, meanwhile, was said to have broken with ARENA and to have withdrawn its two deputies from the rightist coalition...