Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidency-to a goal of preserving peace. He had also in a highly visible way placed the U.S. in the increasingly uncomfortable and unfortunate position of seeming to be unable to choose between siding with its closest ally or with a repressive government run by a military junta. But that was the unavoidable price of such a mediation effort...
Galtieri has remained more committed to attempting to revive Argentina's crippled economy than to restoring democracy. As Commander in Chief of the army, a post he still holds along with the presidency and membership in the three-man junta, he once boasted that "the ballot boxes are well stored away and they will remain well stored away." Politicians, in Galtieri's view, often stand in the way of Argentina's ambitions. Says he: "We don't want to be a country. We want to be a great country. The Argentine problem is that there hasn...
...neighboring Guatemala, meanwhile, the group of junior officers who overthrew the repressive regime of General Fernando Romeo Lucas García last month has produced a dramatic change of atmosphere. The reason: the enthusiasm and apparent dedication of the born-again Christian who heads the three-man junta, General Efrain Ríos-Montt...
...Guatemala City, the familiar convoys of shotgun-toting bodyguards have disappeared, as have the street-corner patrols of combat-ready paratroopers in flak jackets and tiger suits. Vigilante policemen are no longer seen in public. There are even reports that the new junta has disbanded the dreaded judicial police force that flourished under Lucas Garc...
...endemic Guatemalan problems as poverty, hunger and civil war. But he has done a notable job of gaining public trust as he restored order in the capital. He faces some opposition from the politicians, who want him to announce a date for new elections, and even from within the junta. But other Guatemalans are wondering if it would not be better to give the born-again general a chance to demonstrate what else he can accomplish...