Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lester, 3" a specialist on the effect of nutrition on childhood development, spent two years in the early "0s working in Guatemala at the Institute of Nutrition for Central America and Panama...
...would not vote for Jackson for President, but I am glad we have him. The U.S. played a major role in coups in Guatemala and Chile, not to mention other smaller actions in Latin America. I have no love for Communism, but our support of dictators is appalling. Jackson forces us to see with a fresh perspective...
...winners was the center-left Christian Democratic Party, led by Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, 41, which captured 22 Assembly seats. Tied for first place was the moderate Union of the National Center, led by Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 51. Guatemala's traditional ultrarightist party, the Movement of National Liberation, took 21 seats. Both Cerezo and Carpio predicted that they could fashion a majority by making deals with some of the 14 other parties in the contest...
...elections were only the first step on the road to civilian rule. General Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores, who took power from General Efrain Rios Montt in a coup last August, called the elections in March as part of his promise to return Guatemala to democracy. But he took pains to remind the competing politicians that their mandate was limited to writing a new constitution and preparing for presidential elections in July 1985. Ten days before the vote, Mejía appeared on national television, flanked by 27 armed-forces commanders, to declare that he would take "whatever means...
...progress for a country with one of the worst human rights records in the hemisphere (116 political killings and kidnapings a month). The results might also earn a small reward from the U.S. Congress, which is currently studying an Administration request for $10 million in "nonlethal" military aid for Guatemala, after a seven-year embargo on such assistance. Summed up the Rev. Kenneth Baker, a Jesuit priest and one of eleven official U.S. observers at the elections: "We have seen a tremendous hope in the future, but not necessarily a certainty...