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...also said she has worked with Interlock Media in producing a radio documentary on Guatemala, which National Public Radio distributed. "[The program] is focused on the Indians and the problems they are facing, the indigenous people and the effect of policy on their communities," she added...
...declared in 1983 that Managua's armed forces exceed those of all other Central American countries combined. But, counting full-time soldiers and militia on active duty, the Nicaraguan army of 62,000 is by far the largest of any single country in the area. Nicaragua has 150 tanks; Guatemala has ten and the other Central American nations none at all. Though the Sandinistas are deficient in combat aircraft, they boast 36 helicopters, including at least ten Soviet-made Hind gunships. Hopes that this military machine eventually may be cut back rose a bit last week. Representatives of Nicaragua, Honduras...
...second source of unrest was the harsh new economic measures promised by the government of General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores, including tax increases ranging from 15% to 50% on imported goods and new tariffs on most domestic products. When protests broke out in Guatemala City, the capital, Mejia Victores, who came to power in a 1983 coup, suspended the new taxes and called off the trip he had planned to take to the Vatican and the Middle East...
...government's last-minute action on taxes eased the rising tension but left Guatemala's worst economic crisis in 50 years unresolved. As rumors of a coup swept the country, Guatemalans reacted in the customary fashion, stocking up on food, gasoline and other supplies...
Mayor Leonard Russell, who voted against the resolution, said he has received "over 200 calls, mostly in opposition" since the City Council voted 5-4 Monday not to cooperate in federal investigations of refugees from Guatemala, EI Salvador and Haiti...