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With the war going against them, many guerrillas sought refuge in the capital, joining forces with urban terrorists who had been relatively quiet. Then, early last month, President Julio César Méndez Montenegro ordered an increase in the sales tax and bus fares, and the terrorism that had been largely confined to the countryside flared up in the capital. Communist fire bombs exploded in Guatemala City's two largest department stores, causing more than $1,000,000 in damage...
...ambassador to El Salvador in 1954, he tried to thwart the U.S.-supported military coup that toppled Arbenz. The new government stripped Asturias of his citizenship, and sent him once again into exile. Last year, after the election of Moderate Leftist Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Asturias was invited back to his country, where he rejoined the foreign service...
...help keep an eye on the city's 519 prisoners. Northern hippies who came south for Acapulco gold (maximum penalty for possession: six years) were jammed in with hardened characters like Félix Radilla, wanted for 85 murders, and Constáncio ("Black Animal") Hernández García, whose gang gunned down 18 soldiers a few months ago. The prisoners pay a price for everything: a cot to sleep on, half-decent food to eat, "protection" from the other prisoners, a few hours of privacy with a wife or girl friend. Many who can afford...
...experiment in group therapy was approved by Cuernavaca's Bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo. Alarmed by Lemercier's innovation, the Vatican sent several investigators to Cuernavaca, and last year Lemercier went to Rome to explain the results to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He is still there, and in response to his pleas, Pope Paul has appointed a commission of three cardinals to review his case-and, in effect, the broad question of whether psychotherapy is a proper means of helping a man decide whether he is truly called to the monastic life...
Like the Dominican Republic's Balaguer, Méndez faces some heavy historical adds. Since Guatemala's inde pendence in 1847, only one civilian President, Leftist Juan Jose Arévalo (1945-51), has completed his term. Besides an itchy military, Guatemala is also plagued by a stagnant economy and mounting extremist agitation from both right-wing and Communist terrorists. Though Méndez was not talking specific solutions or programs last week, he was confident in the knowledge that he had fully 30 of the new Guatemalan Congress' 55 members on his side...