Word: guatemalan
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...nestled between Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and Guatemala, might run into serious trouble even before it got a chance to enjoy its new status. Guatemala's hostile military regime has reasserted claims to the area dating back to an 1859 boundary treaty with Britain. In talks with Guatemalan officials earlier this year, Britain agreed to give Guatemala access to the Caribbean through Belize, but the negotiations subsequently broke down. Guatemala closed its borders with Belize and severed consular relations with Britain...
Perhaps the greatest area of papal concern has been Jesuit activity in Latin America: one activist Jesuit has already been murdered in El Salvador and two have been killed in Guatemala for advocating greater social reform. Rumors have spread-so far, officially denied-that the Guatemalan authorities were set to banish the society from the country entirely. As John Paul made clear to Latin American bishops in Puebla, Mexico, two years ago, he approves of the church's defending the rights of the oppressed-but not by political means that have more in common with Marxism than Christianity. Many...
...canal-with Venezuelan backing. An estimated $100 million in Venezuelan money has flowed into embattled El Salvador to prop up the civilian-military government headed by Christian Democratic President José Napoleón Duarte, who spent seven years of exile in Venezuela. Even the right-wing regime of Guatemalan President Fernando Romeo Lucas García, no friend of Venezuela's democratic government, has received an estimated $200 million in oil subsidies...
...next morning Guatemalan police interrogated Sanchez, Bocel Cumes and Sister Gonzales. A key point of their testimony: the killers were ladinos (men of mixed Indian and Spanish blood), considerably taller than the average full-blooded Indian, who spoke fluent Spanish. All of the arrested men are Indians who speak limited, heavily accented Spanish. Two of those arrested, Farmers Esteban Coche Leanda, 19, and Juna Quiju Caj, 25, actually were friends of Father Rother's. The third, Miguel Angel Mendoza Tecun, 32, is a well-known local merchant...
...gone into hiding. Two other principal witnesses have fled the country, fearing government reprisals because they had repudiated testimony about the crime. Nurse Sanchez, who is in the U.S., will not discuss the incident. Sister Gonzales has returned to Mexico, where Carmelite officials said that the Guatemalan authorities were "using her name to make false statements about how the killing had occurred...