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...political obstacles the Pope had to overcome if his spiritual mission was to succeed. John Paul's Guatemala stop, scheduled for Monday, ran into trouble when President Efrain Rios Montt ordered the execution of six suspected terrorists, ignoring a last-minute papal plea for clemency. In a message to Guatemalan Bishop Prospero Pernados del Barrio, John Paul confirmed that he still planned to visit Guatemala but condemned the executions. Said the Pope: "I cannot fail to think with immense pain of the recent executions that have taken place in your nation and to invoke divine mercy on all these deceased...
...Administration's antagonism toward the hemisphere's first Marxist regime (Fidel Castro's Cuba) and the latest (Sandinist Nicaragua). His stops in Costa Rica and Honduras symbolically isolated Nicaragua, which is wedged in between. Reagan also conferred with President Alvaro Magafta of El Salvador and Guatemalan Strongman General Ephrain Rios Montt, both of whom face leftist insurgencies. Though Reagan made it a point not to go to either of their countries, the sessions were controversial because of continuing human rights violations reported in both places...
Rios Montt has done nothing to deserve the trust such a change in U.S. policy would indicate. New elections, promised by the Guatemalan leader, are still unsure, and terrorism--particularly from rightist death squads--continues to plague the country. Reagan's desire--announced during his trip--to send more guns to Guatemala would only make the situation worse...
...spend too much time addressing might hold the key to averting economic disaster. While Latin America has been newsworthy of late for the turmoil of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, the President will visit none of those countries, though he will meet briefly with Salvadoran President Alvaro Magana and Guatemalan leader Gen. Efrain Rios Montt in Honduras. The U.S. is spending several hundred million dollars a year in military assistance to prop up governments in El Salvador and Guatemala and to topple the Sand inista regime in Nicaragua. Costa Rica and Honduras, concerned by the Nicaraguan arms buildup, are diverting...
...Reagan has shown little inclination to treat the Salvadoran, Nicaraguan and Guatemalan dilemmas as more than incidents in a larger East-West conflict. Last week, one official in Washington aid that troubles in Latin America came from "leftists, communists, and other subversives." this off-repeated White House line obscures a striking reality about Latin America: The economic chaos Reagan will find during his trop sums up the recent history of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala as well. But in those countries, the resulting economic, social and political inequities--not a bunch of revolutionary communists--led to upheaval. Reagan hopes...