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...rebels by releasing its second White Paper in two years on the subject (the first was issued in February 1981). Once again Washington asserted that Cuba, with Soviet help, was trying to "consolidate control of the Sandinista directorate in Nicaragua and to overthrow the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala...
...totally absurd excuse for the U.S. to commit aggression against us. We did not invent the Salvadoran revolution. As recently as 1977, their guerrilla movement was stronger than ours. The Salvadoran revolutionaries do not have military bases here. If they have bases outside El Salvador, they are in Guatemala and Honduras...
Then Ríos Montt delivered a minor bombshell. Guatemala, he said, was "not prepared" for democratic elections that he had been vaguely promising for six months. More time was needed, he said, to restore the country's voter rolls, some of which were falsified by Guatemala's previous military rulers. Ríos Montt also said that the country's suspended political parties must be reformed, "to coincide with the equitable interests of a majority and with pressures of a minority." Translation: Ríos Montt does not intend to schedule elections until he has created...
...with blue-and-white posters bearing a favorite Ríos Montt slogan, I DO NOT ROB, I DO NOT LIE, I DO NOT ABUSE. Under the President's moralizing eye, corruption has all but dried up. Government-sanctioned death squads that used to roam the streets of Guatemala City have almost disappeared. Most important, Ríos Montt appears to have succeeded, at least temporarily, where the government of neighboring El Salvador has failed: in winning a war against a powerful Marxist insurgency involving an estimated 4,000 guerrillas and their supporters...
Only a year ago, the guerrillas controlled vast swatches of territory in at least seven of Guatemala's 22 departments. Now the number of insurgents has substantially diminished and, says a Western military analyst, "the guerrillas are bleeding. Their cadres are scattered all over the place, and the rest are not willing to pay the price to confront the army." Many of the guerrillas have fled to safety in southern Mexico...