Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should we have more of the CIA's dirty tricks? They toppled popular governments and substituted oppressive dictatorships in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, thus earning for America the hatred of freedom-loving people in those countries and elsewhere. Why should we fan anti-Soviet paranoia by implying that only they commit "brazen and brutal" aggression, as in Afghanistan. In recent years the U.S. has intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic and in Viet Nam to impose governments favorable to us. We do not need a renewed imperialist image but a people-loving image...
...Soviet bloc intervention in Latin America, he contended, is part of a "four-phased operation" that began with "the seizure of Nicaragua," a country whose new government Carter courted but Reagan seemed almost prepared to write off. Said Haig: "Next is El Salvador, to be followed by Honduras and Guatemala ... A hit list, if you will." The next day, Haig slightly backed off his extreme view on Nicaragua, saying there are "a number of very important democratic elements seeking change" there...
...gathered on the soccer field. "In El Salvador, the exploitation of the peasants has definitely ended," he told them. "Today you work the land for your own benefit." Another junta member, José Ramón Avalos Navarrete, presided over ceremonies at a sugar and coffee plantation near the Guatemala border. At a cotton plantation near Usulatan, Junta President José Napoleón Duarte told his listeners to look forward to elections as early as next winter...
...Soviet-supported outcome. Since that time, we've been plagued with similar situations in Ethiopia, in South Yemen, North Yemen, Afghanistan, in Kampuchea [Cambodia]. And we now see a very clearly delineated Soviet-Cuban strategy to create Marxist-Leninist regimes in Central America -Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in the first phase...
...revolution, the play simplifies and even misinterprets other factors in the peasants' struggle against oppression. In particular, the image of the purity and impartiality of the church seems to grossly misrepresent the past or present realities of life in Central America. The real debates today in El Salvador or Guatemala are not over the Church's role as a counter-revolutionary force, but over its emerging position as an active supporter of violent change...