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...Rother and his congregation, like many Guatemalan villagers, were caught in the middle of the undeclared civil war that since 1978 has pitted the security forces of President Fernando Romeo Lucas García against leftist guerrilla groups operating in the highlands. Both the army and the guerrillas had taken over the village during the past year. Apparently suspected of sympathizing with the leftists, a number of Rother's parishioners were murdered while the village was under army control. Rother may have sealed his fate by writing a letter, which was reportedly circulated in the U.S. last January, describing...
Rother was the ninth priest-and first American-to die this year in Guatemala's continuing political strife. According to a report by Amnesty International, an organization that keeps track of political repression around the world, there have been some 5,000 political murders in Guatemala since Lucas García became President in 1978. No precise statistical breakdown is available, but most outside observers agree that the right is responsible for the overwhelming majority of the killings. Much of the violence is the work of government security units, which are waging an all-out campaign to crush...
...result of these brutal tactics, all potential opposition voices to President Lucas García have been silenced, and political pluralism is dead. Though García cannot legally succeed himself in next March's presidential election, there is little doubt that a like-minded rightist, such as General Aníbal Guevara Rodríguez, the Defense Minister, will move into the palace in Guatemala City...
...President Lucas García has not held up his end of the implicit deal. TIME has learned that the Presidential Palace sent out specific orders to curb the killing during Walters' visit in order to improve Guatemala's bargaining position. After Walters' departure, the death rate rose to a new high and is now averaging roughly 400 a month...
...When García Lorca wrote The Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard in 1924, twelve years before he was murdered by Franco sympathizers at the beginning of the Civil War, the paramilitary Guardia Civil was already a widely feared institution in Spain. Since its formation in 1844 during the Bourbon monarchy, the corps had been the efficient internal security force of the central government in Madrid. Under Franco, it became part of the dictatorship's apparatus of repression. For many Spaniards, the gray-green uniform and the black patent-leather cap remain symbols of reaction and oppression. Thus...