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...Spreti was on his way to his residence when eight young members of the Rebel Armed Forces, a revolutionary group, forced him out of his Mercedes 300 at gunpoint. The Guatemalan government rejected a rebel demand for the release of 22 Guatemalan political prisoners and $700,000 in exchange for the ambassador. The government refused to negotiate even after Bonn offered to pay the money. Five days after the kidnaping, Von Spreti was found dead, lying face down on the mud floor of an abandoned hut outside Guatemala City...
Painful Questions. The death of Von Spreti raised painful questions. Why had the Guatemalan government refused to negotiate his release? It had done so for Foreign Minister Alberto Fuentes Mohr and U.S. Labor Attache Sean M. Holly. The Von Spreti case was unfortunately complicated by Guatemala's domestic politics. A strong law-and-order current is running in the country; it swept hard-nosed Colonel Carlos Arana Osorio into the presidency last month and he vigorously opposes further concessions to kidnapers...
Lesson number two for understanding America: He who pays is never he who benefits. The American taxpayer pays for the continued production of planes and guns and bombs. He pays for training the Guatemalan army and, of course, for U.S. troops in Vietnam. The profits go to the major corporations. Most people in this country can now buy less with their wages than they could five years ago. They certainly haven't benefitted...
This ideal of revolutionary self-sacrifice is tremendously powerful for many young Latin Americans. Shortly before his death in 1967, the young Guatemalan poet-guerrilla Otto Rene Castillo wrote...
...guerrillas realize that the Guatemalan Army is only a first obstacle, and that before it sees its puppets destroyed, the United States will intervene massively. We already have some 1000 military "advisors" in Guatemala, according to Miami Herald reporter Georgie Anne Geyer (Dec. 24, 1966). Less than 500 guerrillas now. A few thousand more and it is decided...