Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between our nations. Our anger is not directed at Americans because they are Americans. We have no genes for anti-Americanism in us. Our anger is directed at those in power who installed and maintained the Shah for 25 years, as they still do for dictators in Chile, Guatemala, Paraguay, the Philippines and around the world...
...past eleven years, four American ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty. In 1968 Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein was shot during a kidnaping attempt. Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr. was murdered in 1973, when members of the Palestinian Black September group seized the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum and took six diplomats hostage. The terrorists surrendered three days later, but not before killing Noel and two other hostages. In 1974, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies was shot to death during a Greek Cypriot attack...
...senior officers on the retirement list. Through an American diplomat, they informed Romero that he had until 3 p.m. to get out of the country. With that, the President (whose brother Jose Javier was gunned down by leftists five weeks ago) boarded a plane and fled to Guatemala...
...Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle last summer; 3) the left-wing coup in Grenada last March, which replaced Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy with a socialist regime that established relations with Havana. There is worry in Washington that the Sandinista revolt could spill over into El Salvador and Guatemala, where repressive military regimes are struggling against leftist dissidents. Grenada's warm embrace of Havana could set an example for other former British island possessions in the eastern Caribbean...
Nevertheless, Theroux includes some passable anecdotes, like one on the inappropriate naming of South American cities: "None of the Lagunas Verdes was green...Progreso in Guatemala was backward; La Liberated in El Salvador, a stronghold of repression in a country where salvation seemed in short supply." And his descriptions of the class stigmas on the trains and his interview with Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges are superb...