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...real authority behind the scenes. "In the first six months I'll have 30% of the power," Cerezo told TIME last month. "In the first two years I'll have 50%, and I'll never have more than 70% of the power during my five-year term." Says Guatemala City Archbishop Próspero Penados del Barrio: "Whoever becomes President is going to have to move with great caution. You cannot have a dialogue with the armed forces...
...since the early 1980s. Although the rebels were nearly exterminated in a counterinsurgency drive four years ago, they have grown back to a force of 5,000, according to their own estimate. "The fighting has increased, and will increase no matter who takes office," said a guerrilla spokesman in Guatemala City last week. The heightened activity is most evident in the country's western department of San Marcos and the northern jungles of El Pet?...
Because of the ongoing social unrest, private investment in Guatemala has been almost nonexistent during the past five years. Partly as a result, the gross domestic product will drop 2% to 3% this year. The combined rate of joblessness and underemployment climbed from 31% in 1980 to around 44% in 1984. Meanwhile, interest payments on Guatemala's $2.3 billion foreign debt consume roughly 40% of the country's export earnings...
...Congress has authorized up to $10 million in military aid for Guatemala for fiscal 1986, provided a civilian government can demonstrate progress in reducing political murders and kidnapings. According to the U.S. embassy, only 440 people have died from political violence during the first nine months of this year, compared with 992 in all of 1984. Much of the killing is committed by rightwing death squads and the military. In addition, some 38,000 Guatemalans reportedly have disappeared under mysterious circumstances since...
Certainly I agree with you that we must preserve a sense of proportion and not panic over the spread of AIDS [WORLD, Oct. 28]. After all, American aid has caused far more deaths in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador and Nicaragua, and no remedy has yet been found for this disease, in spite of efforts in Congress. Graham Greene Antibes, France Middle-Aged...