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...during the 16-month rule of Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt that observers lost count of the actual attempts. Had there been seven? Eight? Ten? Whatever the tally, last week's coup turned out to be for keeps. After a brief gun duel outside the National Palace in Guatemala City, the country's military leaders toppled Rios Montt and replaced him with Defense Minister Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: From Preacher to Paratrooper | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...virtually all of the commanders of the country's armed forces gathered at the Guatemala City barracks of the Guardia de Honor, an elite army garrison. There were impassioned arguments for and against ousting Rios Montt, but gradually the plotters won. The decisive factor: the news that Sisniega Otero was once again planning to move against Rios Montt. Explains a Guatemalan journalist: "The ghost of another coup from the extreme right provoked this coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: From Preacher to Paratrooper | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...tactics in Oaxaca may have seemed inconsistent with the government's widely publicized goal of tolerating pluralism, but the government has more than political reasons for trying to maintain control of Oaxaca. Although the P.R.I, has tolerated defeats in the north, Oaxaca is dangerously close to Guatemala, the site of last week's coup and gateway to the Central American quagmire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Staying on Top | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...including a low-level Guatemalan diplomat, eight people from the Washington area and two Miami residents. Dora Ileana Caceres, 32, third secretary in the Guatemalan mission to the Organization of American States, her husband Juan, a businessman, and her nephew were arrested after her diplomatic status was rescinded by Guatemala following consultations with the State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flawless Rescue | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...order is maintained largely by 7,000 lightly armed civil and rural guardsmen. The country's 1982 per capita income of $1,164 is the second highest, after Panama, in Central America, and its society is largely lacking in the unhealthy extremes of wealth and poverty that afflict Guatemala and El Salvador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Apt and Able Middleman | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

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