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...point, the speech was the kind of bizarre and rambling homily that Guatemalans have come to expect from their born-again military President, Brigadier General José Efrain Ríos Montt, 56. As he has almost every Sunday evening since he assumed power in a March 1982 coup, the silver-mustached member of the California-based Christian Church of the Word last week appeared on Guatemalan television to deliver a sermon on patriotism, morality, local politics and the revelations of divine wisdom. He advised citizens against the use of drugs to combat high blood pressure because, he said...
...involved in two important coups a few years later. In Iran, American influence was solidified by the overthrow of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's Soviet-supported regime in 1953 and the installation of the Shah. When the Guatemalan government of left-wing President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán threatened to expropriate the property of the United Fruit Co. and other U.S. interests, he was toppled in 1954 and replaced by a pro-American regime. In both cases, the interventions were successful but left a legacy of anti-U.S. bitterness...
...former congressional colleagues. Some were troubled by his hard-line ideological views, the same views that endear him to his Administration supporters, National Security Adviser William Clark and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Stone's work in 1981 and 1982 as a paid lobbyist for the right-wing Guatemalan government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, a regime with an abysmal record of human rights abuses, also disturbs some members of Congress; they fear that this connection will hurt his credibility with Salvadoran leftists. Reagan shrugged off such concerns, saying, "It just adds to the experience...
...fact, the Guatemalan military and right-wing paramilitary forces aligned with it have been responsible for the great majority of civilian deaths in the country. The military continues its brutal terrorizing of Indian villages in several provinces. Last November, the government bombed the villages of Montecristo and Bulaj, destroying 85 homes. Members of the Special Forces--a right-wing security force--then massacred at least 36 people. In the face of this and other such well-documented atrocities, the U.S. continues to support Rios Montt, the new Guatemalan President, and states that future human rights improvement is contingent upon...
Such statements provide justification for increased aid and arms sales to the Guatemalan government. In January 1983, Reagan lifted an arms embargo--in effect since 1978--allowing the brutal Rios Montt regime to purchase $6.3 million in arms from...