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Little is known about Rios Montt. Allied with the Social Democrats, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1974. Optimistic officials in Washington say Rios Montt is moderate by Guatemalan standards. But as former Assistant Secretary of State for Central America Sally Shelton puts it, "the political spectrum in Guatemala starts very much to the right of center." And Rios Montt, a general himself, has the backing of the historically repressive military...
...names and painting one side of the name instead of trying to reduce an ocean of meaning to an eyedropper. In "Clarence," she follows the thread of landscape as it spins out from the names of places. A Mayan hieroglyph means "sky", but not only sky-in the Guatemalan sky there also fly-or flew-quetzal birds, the source of ancient Indian folklore and mystery. Nye brings the bird naturally into her sky. She traces the connotations of each image down through the rest of the poem, so that the forward motion is the ideas rolling ahead on their...
Nobody suggests that Ríos-Montt has yet addressed himself to such endemic Guatemalan problems as poverty, hunger and civil war. But he has done a notable job of gaining public trust as he restored order in the capital. He faces some opposition from the politicians, who want him to announce a date for new elections, and even from within the junta. But other Guatemalans are wondering if it would not be better to give the born-again general a chance to demonstrate what else he can accomplish...
...loyalty to Nassar that made Administration officials reluctant to prosecute the Mexican agent. They were more concerned with protecting the delicate, shadowy system of international intelligence cooperation. Nassar had headed Mexico's Directorate of Federal Security since 1977 and supplied the U.S. with important information about Salvadoran and Guatemalan guerrilla figures...
When the call for Brigadier General José Efraín Ríos Montt went out over Guatemalan radio early last Tuesday, he was in a most unmilitary setting: presiding over a parent-teacher conference at a school run by the Christian Church of the Word, a small charismatic group in Guatemala...