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...group operating within Guatemala's security forces who were responsible for drug trafficking and death-squad style killings. The four were murdered before they could reveal the full extent of their allegedly illegal activities. "They were killed to keep the lid on Pandora's box," said El Salvador's chief of police Rodrigo Avila...
...reputations of the conservative governments of Tony Saca in El Salvador and Oscar Berger in Guatemala, two of Washington's few remaining allies in Latin America, have taken a severe hit. The countries share a southern border and have two of the strongest economies in Central America. Both are members of the Central American Free Trade Agreement and are seen by the U.S. as partners in the war on drugs. Just last fall the Bush Administration nominated Guatemala to take the Latin American seat on the U.N. Security Council as a means of shutting out Venezuela. The U.S. government says...
...Saca, too, may be in hot water if it is determined that the three dead congressmen were themselves involved in drug trafficking. The murdered politicians, Eduardo D'Aubuisson, William Pichinte and Jose Ramon Gonzalez, belonged to El Salvador's ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance party, known as ARENA. All were members of the regional parliament, which has 132 members representing five of the seven Central American nations. Based in Guatemala City, the parliament, known by its Spanish acronym PARLACEN, has been mired in drug-trafficking scandals in recent years. In 2003 a Honduran member of the body was convicted of trafficking...
OSCAR ROMERO Assassinated during Mass in 1980, Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador, once said, "A church that does not unite itself to the poor ... is not a true church of Christ." Like Day, he could become a saint...
...cutout" tactic of using private citizens and front companies was apparently North's transparent method of keeping supplies flowing to the contras after the congressional ban. Although North had met regularly with contra leaders in El Salvador and Honduras, he withdrew from this visible activity after the military ban. Instead he dispatched Robert Owen, 33, a former congressional aide to Indiana Senator Dan Quayle, to maintain these contacts. In November 1985, U.S. embassy personnel in Honduras introduced Owen to high Honduran military officials as a White House envoy. In fact, Owen had no official Government position. Last year North...