Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never seen one, but had always wanted to. The students agreed to take her, and they went to a house at the edge of the city. A large man in uniform entered with a pistol in his holster. He was the chief bodyguard of the dictator of Guatemala. Looking around the room he saw Jane and said, 'That's the one I want.' The students tried to protest. 'This is a tourist,' they said. The proprietor offered him one of the other women. 'No,' he said, 'I want that...
Perhaps the greatest area of papal concern has been Jesuit activity in Latin America: one activist Jesuit has already been murdered in El Salvador and two have been killed in Guatemala for advocating greater social reform. Rumors have spread-so far, officially denied-that the Guatemalan authorities were set to banish the society from the country entirely. As John Paul made clear to Latin American bishops in Puebla, Mexico, two years ago, he approves of the church's defending the rights of the oppressed-but not by political means that have more in common with Marxism than Christianity. Many...
...believed to be the work of a pro-government rightist hit squad, had been a major embarrassment for Lucas Garcia's regime. The killing occurred just as the Reagan Administration was considering a resumption of the military aid that was cut off during the Carter years because of Guatemala's deplorable human rights record. The prompt arrests, however, seemed to vindicate the government's system of justice and disprove charges that its security forces may have been involved in the killing. Government officials hoped the arrests would impress newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Frederic Chapin, who is expected...
...life on the line to prevent a robbery." Adds the slain priest's father, Franz: "They had to force their way into his bedroom to get him. If it was a simple robbery, he would not have tried to stop them." Says a foreign diplomat in Guatemala: "Nobody I know believes the government's story...
...week's end the government of General Lucas García refused to comment directly on the arrests or any other aspect of the case. Pressed for a statement, a spokesman for the presidential palace would say only, "There is violence everywhere in Guatemala...