Word: guille
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article "New Regime, Old Methods" [Jan. 24], based on an interview with Roberto Guillén, contains false charges against the Nicaraguan government. My government's open-door policy to visits by international human rights organizations, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International and Pax Christi, is sufficient to counter Guillen's baseless allegations...
...Julio Icaza Gallard Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from Nicaragua New York City TIME stands by the validity of Roberto Guillén's story...
...over the past year evidence has surfaced showing that the Sandinistas are equally capable of repression and brutality. According to Nicaragua's Permanent Commission on Human Rights, the regime detains several hundred people a month; about half of them are eventually released, but the rest simply disappear. Roberto Guillén, 23, served as deputy chief of military counterintelligence for the Defense Ministry, but grew so disenchanted with the tactics of the government that last August he fled to join Edén Pastora Gómez, a hero of the Sandinista revolution who defected in July...