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...actors, the props, even the scenario were familiar. Apparently sniffing out plans for at least the seventh coup since he seized power one year ago, Guatemala's President Efrain Ríos Montt last week declared an official "state of alarm" to muzzle his critics. Under the new orders, privately owned firearms are to be confiscated, political meetings are forbidden and nothing may be published or broadcast that might "disturb the peace of Guatemala." The government also reserved the right to search homes at will and to arrest anyone suspected of Marxist-Leninist activities. For the moment, at least...
...months since General Efraín Ríos Montt seized power in Guatemala, the born-again Protestant has sharply reduced a serious guerrilla threat, attacked corruption and cut down on the activities of death squads. In an effort to win popular support for his policies, he even established a series of Sunday-night TV sermons. Nonetheless, a number of his countrymen, led in part by the local hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, are tiring of Ríos Montt's oldtime religion. Earlier this month, according to some reports from Guatemala, 14 young army officers walked into...
Harvard Latin American specialists familiar with Fuentes speculated this week that he would speak about U.S. policy in Central America Fuentes has been an outspoken critic of the Reagan administration's support for dictatorships in El Salvador and Guatemala...
...graduate of primary school in Washington, D.C., Fuentes is well-known as a friend of the United States, but he has recently been an outspoken critic of the U.S.'s policies in Latin America, especially in the Reagan administration's support for dictatorships in El Salvador and Guatemala...
...other time was in Guatemala in 1964, when the democratically elected government was overthrown by a mercenary invasion openly backed with the CIA. The political process of reform and self-recognition in Guatemala was brutally interrupted to no one's benefit: Guatemala was condemned to a vicious circle of repression, that continues to this...