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...Christian Democrats. The party of the military governments that ruled the country before the 1979 coup, the loosely organized P.C.N. seems to be divided into two main factions: a rightist wing, led by Secretary-General Raul Molina Martinez, and a moderate wing, led by ex-Army Colonel Roberto Escobar Garcia, whom one foreign diplomat calls "the best man they...
...officers who ousted right wing president Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in the first military takeover in 19 years installed retired general Efrain Rios Monnt at the head of a three-man junta. Rios Monnt ran unsuccessfully for president...
...Administration, which backed the Lucas Garcia regime, has not yet said it it will support the new junta...
Under President Carter, the United States halted military and to Guatemala citing alleged human rights violations. The Reagan Administration, the experts agreed, wanted to reverse that ban but had been unable to do so because of the reported excesses of Lucas Garcia's government...
...Villalobos caused a sizable scandal in Latin American leftist circles when he personally executed a well-known Communist poet, Roque Dalton Garcia, on trumped-up charges of being an agent of the CIA. In reality, Dalton was Villalobos' chief political rival. The killing led to bitter factional fights within the E.R.P. and to a breakaway movement. Villalobos' chief gestures of conciliation, on the other hand, have been toward his erstwhile enemy, the Salvadoran army. While some extremists want to purge the whole force in the event of a guerrilla victory, Villalobos has said that "those army sectors that...