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...nothing more is done, in less than 50 years the great resource on which rests our national strength and confidence will begin to ebb. And we could lose more than that, says Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington. A thousand years ago, the Mayan civilization in the Guatemalan lowlands disappeared in a few decades after 17 centuries of development. Modern analysis found that this agriculture-intensive society collapsed when the topsoil...
Your article on the plight of Guatemalan citizens living in Mexico [WORLD, June 18] presents statements based on semitruths. The Guatemalan government has designed a program to bring back from Mexico Guatemalans who freely and voluntarily wish to be resettled. One of the first steps was the inauguration of the village of Chacas near the Mexican border. Guatemala has been conducting negotiations on this issue of relocation with Mexico since November of 1983. In April the Mexican government unilaterally decided to resettle the refugees in northern Campeche. The Guatemalan government publicly protested to the Mexicans after the El Chupadero incident...
...Naturalization Service," he believes, will "become much more punitive toward refugees and sanctuary workers alike." What is even more disturbing about these bills, according to Fife and his colleagues, is that they do not make moral distinctions. Notes Brother Philip of Weston Priory in Weston, Vt., which shelters a Guatemalan family of seven: "When you call these people illegal aliens, you obscure the issues. As citizens of this country, we have a very clear responsibility for the condition that made them refugees...
...Guatemalan government considers the refugee camps, which are several miles from the border, to be staging areas for the guerrillas, a charge that Mexico indignantly denies. Dozens of times over the past four years Guatemalan troops have crossed the border to kill and kidnap refugees. The most recent attack occurred last month, when some 200 Guatemalan soldiers attacked a camp at El Chupadero, four miles north of the border. According to the examining doctor, four men, a pregnant woman and a six-year-old child were tortured and killed...
...lure the Indians back home, the Guatemalan government has announced plans to build a series of "model villages" that will provide housing, schools and health clinics. "We offer clear guarantees to those who desire to return," President Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores declared at the inauguration of the first model village, Chacaj, last March. But no more than 300 refugees have accepted the offer. Most remain skeptical of the regime's intentions: they note that returning families must register with the army and answer questions about why they left and where they went...