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...Guatemala opts for moderation...
There was good news for the Reagan Administration last week in military-dominated Guatemala, where U.S. influence is weak at best. Some 1.8 million voters braved four-hour polling lines, tropical rainstorms and a bewildering array of political choices to cast ballots in their country's most open and fraud-free elections in more than a decade. In the race for a new 88-seat Constituent Assembly, citizens gave a strong show of of support to moderate civilian political parties and issued a sharp rebuff to the 8 military and the landowning oligarchy that have ruled the country since...
...winners was the center-left Christian Democratic Party, led by Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, 41, which captured 22 Assembly seats. Tied for first place was the moderate Union of the National Center, led by Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 51. Guatemala's traditional ultrarightist party, the Movement of National Liberation, took 21 seats. Both Cerezo and Carpio predicted that they could fashion a majority by making deals with some of the 14 other parties in the contest...
...living in Mexico [WORLD, June 18] presents statements based on semitruths. The Guatemalan government has designed a program to bring back from Mexico Guatemalans who freely and voluntarily wish to be resettled. One of the first steps was the inauguration of the village of Chacas near the Mexican border. Guatemala has been conducting negotiations on this issue of relocation with Mexico since November of 1983. In April the Mexican government unilaterally decided to resettle the refugees in northern Campeche. The Guatemalan government publicly protested to the Mexicans after the El Chupadero incident and denied any Guatemalan army involvement. It requested...
Ambassador of Guatemala...