Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: What potential is there in Guatemala for more democratic government and him in U.S. policy now affecting Guatemala...
This gaping hole in the liberal view of the world becomes very salient when one considers Central America. While Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale, New York Representative Stephen Solarz and others chide the Reagan Administration for its callous support of corrupt and repressive retimes in Haiti, Guatemala, El Salvador and other places, these people have nothing to say about Israel's role in selling arms to these same repressive regimes. Happily, Errol Louis breaks the ice by making it clear to all who oppose the apartheid regime in South Africa that they must also begin to oppose the foreign and military...
...case of Guatemala illustrates perfectly what befalls a country when its own policies oppose U.S. interests. In 1950, the State Department, beset with Cold War fever, grew frightened at the presence of a small number of Communists in the liberal coalition of popularly elected president, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. After Arbenz under took a program of land reform in a country where two percent of the population owned close to 75 percent of the land, U.S. officials said they sniffed Communist influence. The Guatemalan government's subsequent confiscation of uncultivated land owned by United Fruit Company prompted the U.S. to begin...
...junta, charged last week that the U.S. is preparing to manufacture a provocation that would justify an invasion. The revitalization of a Central American defense alliance known as CONDECA might serve as the vehicle to launch an American attack. The military chiefs of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala secretly met with the head of the U.S. Southern Command a month ago in Guatemala and agreed that the aims of CONDECA included "the use of force against Marxism." Edgar Chamorro, a leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), the largest of the CIA-backed contra groups, predicts that the O.E.C.S.-sponsored...
...Ramos, joined Chomsky in denouncing Israel. After raising his first to the cheering audience. Ramos proceeded to claim that 82 percent of the armaments shipped to El Salvador originate in Israel and that since 1975. "Israel has been the number one military supplier to one of the worst violators [Guatemala] of human rights in the history of the world...