Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radical image dates from 1968 when a group of Maryknoll priests and nuns sided with leftist guerrillas who were hoping to bring down the government of Guatemala. Two of them then got married and, as Thomas and Marjorie Melville, wrote a book called Guatemala: The Politics of Land Ownership. The incident is still well remembered in Central America. Rightly or wrongly, the Maryknollers have acquired such a name for activism that when a gun-toting Irish priest named Donald McKenna joined the current group of leftist guerrillas in Guatemala, some reporters automatically referred to him as a Maryknoll Father, which...
...Bill Woods, a Texan who arrived in Guatemala and quickly decided to open up unused northern jungle land for Indians, who were running out of farming space in the highlands. Despite feverish opposition and regular threats on his life from landowners in the area, by the 1970s Woods had managed to relocate 1,000 families. Then, three years ago, the priest's small plane exploded in midair. Missionaries are convinced Woods was murdered...
...NATO meeting ended, the Administration took the initiative on two other foreign policy fronts, both involving the Reagan-Haig principle of rewarding friendly governments, whatever their human rights policies, and of punishing hostile, leftist ones. The Administration is planning to reinstall an ambassador and offer new military aid to Guatemala, whose repressive military regime was recently accused by Amnesty International of complicity in 3,000 political murders since 1979. The State Department announced that it was closing Libya's embassy in Washington and expelling its diplomatic personnel because of well-substantiated charges that Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi was actively...
Furthermore, Reagan's policy toward El Salvador, Guatemala and other Latin American governments shows a complete willingness to support institutionalized, state-sponsored terrorism of the right wing. The resistance to recognize Bolivia stems not from human rights violations, but from concern about cocaine, produced in Bolivia and sold in the United States. Deep involvement of top-ranking officers in cocaine trade has been documented beyond doubt. Analysts of Bolivian polities suspect that control over this 800-million-dollar-a-year business was a central reason for the July coup...
...last night to place on the ballot for the November city elections a question reading "Shall the Cambridge City Council call upon our Representative in Congress to oppose sending U.S. troops, military advisers, arms, or military aid of any kind whatsoever to the governments of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala...