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When Rios Montt joined the coup that overthrew the government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in March 1982, he made for a refreshing change. Rios Montt reduced corruption and abolished many of the government-sanctioned death squads that had haunted the country. Though his tactics cost the lives of thousands of innocent Guatemalans, the new leader succeeded in subduing a threat by 4,000 leftist guerrillas last year...
Their worries are well founded. As most eyes were focused on Chad last week, a Marxist who has expressed open admiration for Gaddafi overthrew the pro-Western government of President Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo in nearby Upper Volta. Street fighting in the capital city of Ouagadougou left five dead and 15 wounded. Ouédraogo was replaced by a "National Council of Revolution" headed by Thomas Sankara, 35, a brash, charismatic army captain. In the past, Libya has also made trouble by attempting to undermine pro-Western governments in Niger, Senegal and Tunisia...
Until recently such an open challenge to the stern regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte would have been unthinkable. A notoriously repressive dictator, Pinochet has regularly silenced his opposition with torture, killings and exile. In the 9½ years since he took power in the bloody coup that overthrew Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, Pinochet has also maintained control by bringing remarkable prosperity to the Andean nation. But Chile's economic miracle may have run its course. After a booming 7.3% average yearly expansion of the economy from 1977 to 1981, Chile suffered a catastrophic 13% negative growth rate...
Nicaragua has been torn by strife ever since Sandinista guerrillas overthrew the U.S. backed government of Anastasio Somoza three years ago. The United State, has tried to undermine the leftist government by providing covert aid to rebels fighting the Sandinistas...
...Americans have visited Nicaragua since the Sandinistas overthrew Somoza, and what they have experienced in visiting the country is very different from their expectations," Treumann said...