Word: guatemala
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...first it was very discouraging for me to realize how "unmajoritarian" this all is. I had come to Guatemala in hopes of seeing a popular revolution, and partly to get away from this country, where the majority's in difference to its government's war crimes daily invited a revolutionary to go crazy...
Luckily for Latin America (and for Christianity), there are nascent movements of revolutionary and reform clergy. Some read Martin Luther King; some, like Camillo Torres, have died fighting with the guerrillas. In Guatemala there is a fairly liberal clergy movement called COSDEGUA (Conference of Guatemalan Priests). As mild as it seems to be, it is being vigorously suppressed. When I was in the capital, eight of its members were suspended...
...Marxist analysis, even examining the problem of state power, and advocating something which sounds a good deal like the dictatorship of the proletariat, though that is not the term used. The statement was presented by some 500 priests, mostly Chileans and Argentines. It is significant that Guatemala's tightly censored newspapers would carry this...
...hoped for many Vietnams, and all who wish to see America's empire broken might wish the same. But when I look at the beautiful highlands-the canyons, ferns, pine trees, volcanoes and mineral springs and consider the hell of Vietnam today-I cannot wish that on Guatemala. She may yet take it on herself. But before anything like a majority of the people have actually decided to support the revolution, Guatemala will be committed to a long season in a hell much fiercer than the grinding misery she now knows...
...guerrillas realize that the Guatemalan Army is only a first obstacle, and that before it sees its puppets destroyed, the United States will intervene massively. We already have some 1000 military "advisors" in Guatemala, according to Miami Herald reporter Georgie Anne Geyer (Dec. 24, 1966). Less than 500 guerrillas now. A few thousand more and it is decided...