Word: guatemala
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...group has sought to plunge a city into chaos with simultaneous attacks, for example, on its power stations, water supply and main roads. But the degree of terror has increased notably with the cop-killing campaign in the U.S. and the murder of hostages in Canada, Argentina, Uruguay and Guatemala. Thus the urban guerrillas have revived the system of diplomatic ransom that flourished from the Dark Ages until the Renaissance, when kings and princes routinely used ambassadors as hostages. As Brandeis Sociologist Richard Sennett puts it: "The terrorism of today is the diplomacy of Henry the Eighth...
...spectacular. What was needed, they decided, were specially-trained Marines who would be ready to make a quick trip to a rebellious land, get rid of the rebellion, set up a puppet government, and then return to defend the homeland. After all, hadn't the CIA coup in Guatemala worked just that...
JANUARY 1968: Guerrillas in Guatemala City machine-gunned to death two U.S. military attaches who were returning to work after lunch...
AUGUST 1968: U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein was gunned to death in Guatemala City when he tried to escape capture by guerrillas...
MARCH 1970: Nobuo Okuchi, Japanese consul general in Sāo Paulo, was kidnaped and exchanged for five prisoners who were flown to Mexico. Sean M. Holly, a U.S. labor attache in Guatemala City, was kidnaped and ransomed for one political prisoner. U.S. Air Attaché Lieut. Colonel Donald Crowley was kidnaped and ransomed for 20 political prisoners. In La Paz, Bolivia, Newspaper Publisher Alfredo Alexander and his wife were killed by a bomb that was delivered to their house by messenger...