Word: ultraleft
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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After becoming President on a law-and-order platform, Araña tried briefly to moderate his strongman image. But terrorist kidnapings and murders continued-mostly by the ultraleft F.A.R. (Rebel Armed Forces). Araña, a former counterinsurgency chief who is credited with wiping out 3,000 people during an antiguerrilla campaign in northeastern Guatemala between 1966 and 1968, heard mounting calls for a crackdown. Finally, after four policemen had been gunned down by guerrillas in two days, Araña imposed the state of siege and a 9 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. Soon the blood began...
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