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...political horse trading that followed the elections, the Christian Democrats were outflanked by a rightist coalition that included D'Aubuisson's ARENA and the National Conciliation Party (P.C.N.). Controlling at least 34 of the assembly's 60 seats, the alliance was in a position to freeze out Duarte's party. But the U.S. mounted a strong lobbying effort to ensure the Christian Democrats at least a share of power. The Reagan Administration's principal argument was that if the moderates were left out of the government, the U.S. Congress would not support continued military...
When Lucas Garcia took office in 1978 political violence which had been widespread in Guatemala for several decades increased dramatically. Moderate politicians were murdered of forced into exile by rightist death squad and thousands of Indian peasants were killed in an effort by Lucas Garcia to wipe out the left's popular base of support. After harsh criticism by the Carter Administration. Guatemala renounced...
...urge Congress to use that veto. The Rios Montt regime could indeed turn out to be moderate and concerned about the welfare of all Guatemalans. But most signs indicate the new governments is just likely to become another addition to the list of Central American rightist dictatorships. Then, Washington would have another El Salvador on its hands. And as it stands, one is already too many...
...fact, Lottman himself remains scrupulously objective and un-engaged throughout The Left Bank Aside from an occasional snide remarks--for example, writing about rightist author Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: "Drieu's biography reads like fiction, which is why it can be preferred to his own books" and an at times unflattering portrait of Malraux Lottman refuses to editorialize. Instead, he paints a marvelously detailed picture of the writers and artists of Paris's Left Bank, their milieu and the confused, often ambiguous way they dealt with the events of their time...
Washington policymakers looked on all the pronouncements and maneuvers as initial "posturing" in what may be a drawn-out coalition-building process. Cheered by their apparent success in softening up the rightist opposition, U.S. officials had recovered some of their earlier optimism by week's end. The Administration was "more than hopeful," said a senior official, that whatever ruling coalition emerges will not only pay lip service to the required reforms but will actually carry them out. "It is not who runs the next government that's important," said Everett Briggs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter...