Word: guatemalan
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...Church assumed its sanctuary role temporarily on March 23, when it provided dinner, services, and shelter in the church building to eight Guatemalan refugees. The family was en route to their new home, a Benedictine priory in Weston...
...LYRICAL FILM El Norte is a sobering reminder of the flip side of the American Dream: the harsh and discouraging existence of the lower-class immigrant. Through the hopeful eyes of its central adult characters--a young Guatemalan Indian named Enrique and his sister Rosa--we see the ultimate "American" city, Los Angeles, in a new light: for a change the focus is not on aging starlets, alienated gigolos, or the jaded Rodeo Drive crowd. The hopes dashed in this tale are of a humbler sort, concerning only survival and modest prosperity...
...groups. In a 260-page report, Manhattan-based Americas Watch, a controversial group that is often accused of being too sympathetic to the left, called Guatemala "a nation of prisoners." One of its targets was a government plan that moved some 10,000 Indians into well-guarded compounds. The Guatemalan army notes that its security is designed to keep rebels out, not peasants in. "What they call a concentration camp," says Lieut. Colonel Edgar Dominguez, "we call a model village...
...then Ríos Montt's Defense Minister, for an explanation. But none of Mejía's responses were satisfactory. Then in November two more linguists working on a U.S. AID program were found burned to death on a rural highway. The Guatemalan government called it a highway accident, but the U.S. embassy suspected that some members of government security forces, who routinely consider educators to be radicals, were responsible. Chapin will leave his post by the end of this month; his colleagues say that he has long felt frustrated and ineffective in his dealings with...
...latest State Department report holds Guatemala's security forces responsible for some of the arbitrary deaths and disappearances; it also accuses them of torturing suspects. Nonetheless, the Reagan Administration last month approved the sale of helicopter parts worth $6.4 million to the Guatemalan army, even though Congress last November voted to continue denying military aid to Guatemala because of human rights violations...