Word: guatemalan
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...safe for America's brand of democracy. Generally disenfranchised from the prosperity of America, they possess no sense of noblesse oblige. Often alienated and debased, they have no sacred national image to protect. Their own chances for economic advancement usually slim, they see no logic in spilling blood over Guatemalan bananas or Southeast Asian oil. Internationalism is to these people simply a giant waste of lives, time, money, and effort--all of which could be better utilized, they reason, in their own back yards...
...them, like militant young priests from Spain exiled to work in the missions, take their anger with them. Some find it in the field: while Maryknoll missionaries in Guatemala, Thomas and Marjorie Melville (a priest and nun who later married) actively aided Castroite guerrillas because they felt the Guatemalan Indians were exploited; they were expelled from the country...
...rest of the crowd is Guatemalan students, and some local businessmen, who are quite openly checking out the girls...
...that most of the guerrillas are Indian. I'd like to think so but it's probably not true. Alfonso Bauer Paiz says 30 per cent. About 60 per cent of the population is Indian, and almost all the peasants are Indian. I am sorry to find that most Guatemalan students (who are all white) are quite racist-even some of the big anti-imperialists. Even though two of the three guerrilla leaders were Indians (the late Yon Sosa and Turicos...
...Such a lunatic would be only funny if he were not receiving millions of U.S. military aid every year. In 1967, for example, Guatemala got $1.7 million worth of military aid, while $500,000 of Alliance for Progress went to the police force. (Letter from Guy A. Wiggins, Guatemalan Desk, State Dept., quoted in Tsunami, Catholic University, Mar, 1969, cited in Thomas and Marjorie Melville, op. eit., p. 28) All of Guatemala's top colonels are trained by the United States (Castillo Armas was a Fort Leavenworth grad), and all the counter-insurgency Ranger troops are trained at Ft. Gulick...