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...late last week ten suspects had been arrested, including a low-level Guatemalan diplomat, eight people from the Washington area and two Miami residents. Dora Ileana Caceres, 32, third secretary in the Guatemalan mission to the Organization of American States, her husband Juan, a businessman, and her nephew were arrested after her diplomatic status was rescinded by Guatemala following consultations with the State Department...
...Montt has survived other challenges to his authority since the March 1982 coup that put him in the presidential palace. Leading the chorus of protest is the powerful Roman Catholic Guatemalan Bishops' Conference, which last month issued a pastoral letter condemning the government's human rights record, including its use of military tribunals that order secret executions of suspected terrorists. "Massacres still continue," the bishops charged. "There are frequently cases of missing people. It is only right to condemn unacceptable abuses of power from some authorities...
...Montt, who only a few months ago enjoyed support for ending the repressive regime of his predecessor and for quelling guerrillas in the Guatemalan countryside, responded to the latest criticism by forcing Echeverría into retirement and ordering the arrest of Castejón and two other political foes on charges of "injuring the presidency...
Until recently in L.A., it was silly to talk of a Hispanic population: Mexicans were it. But now there are 50,000 Guatemalans with their own 18-team Guatemalan soccer league. There are 200,000 Salvadorans, and the political violence there is driving hundreds more to L.A. every week. Further, there are some 100,000 Colombians, Hondurans, Cubans and Puerto Ricans. As with the Asians, invidious distinctions are offered without much prompting. Arturo Price is from Colombia. "We have nothing to do with Mexicans here," he sneers. "Our culture is different, our Spanish more pure...
...general's remarks came as a surprise to a high-level Guatemalan delegation that was visiting the U.S. Jorge Serrano, president of Ríos Montt's advisory Council of State, had assured a U.S. audience that an election date would be announced no later than March 1984 and that voting would probably take place the following June. Ríos Montt's reversal was "incomprehensible," said a member of the visiting delegation. "I don't know what the President had in mind...