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Also banned was the small, conservative Christian Democratic Party, whose leader, Major Sanches Osorio, a former Information Minister, was allegedly implicated in the March 11 coup. The council did not move, as some had feared, against the much larger conservative party, the Center Social Democratic Party (C.D.S.), which had presented joint slates in many areas with the Christian Democrats. But, while the government authorized the C.D.S. to field new candidates, there was some question whether it would...
...long after he was inaugurated as President of Guatemala last July, Right Wing Army Colonel Carlos Aarña Osorio complained wearily to his people: "But you are so hard to govern." Since November, when Araña declared a state of siege, armed thugs of every political variety have been doing their best to remedy that problem by eliminating as many Guatemalans as possible. According to the Latin American Federation of Christian Trade Unions (CLASC), a Catholic labor movement based in Venezuela, at least 700 and possibly 1,000 have been murdered; some 4,000 have been arrested...
...current bulwark of this great order is Col. Arana Osorio. He is on top of the military heap ( equals president) today because...
...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...
Colonel-Assassin. It was small wonder, then, that when Guatemalans went to the polls last week, they were receptive to Colonel Carlos Arana Osorio and his strong "law and order" pitch. Arana, 51, is best known to Guatemalans as the commander of the Zacapa Brigade, which virtually wiped out one of Latin America's largest rural guerrilla movements between...