Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JUST READ in the New York Times [Dec. 27, 1970], that one of the few Guatemalan professors who was not afraid to talk to me has been shot while driving his car by one of the Right's death squads. This man, Alfonso Bauer Paiz, had publicly denounced the government so many times, and had nearly died for it so many times, that he had nothing to fear from informers. He was only wounded this time. While I was in Guatemala this summer, they tried to run him over in a car. Sooner or later, they will...
...Such a lunatic would be only funny if he were not receiving millions of U.S. military aid every year. In 1967, for example, Guatemala got $1.7 million worth of military aid, while $500,000 of Alliance for Progress went to the police force. (Letter from Guy A. Wiggins, Guatemalan Desk, State Dept., quoted in Tsunami, Catholic University, Mar, 1969, cited in Thomas and Marjorie Melville, op. eit., p. 28) All of Guatemala's top colonels are trained by the United States (Castillo Armas was a Fort Leavenworth grad), and all the counter-insurgency Ranger troops are trained at Ft. Gulick...
...data; its computerization and storage in data banks by different branches of the government, by private firms, or by complexes such as the Cambridge Project, is a logical product of the bureaucratic and technological rationale for investigation, more information, and expertise. Whether the subject be the political behavior of Guatemalan peasants or Bolivian tin miners, the reaction to urbanization of South Vietnamese peasants or ghetto blacks, the rationale is that if only we had more Knowledge about the problem, if only data were quantifiable and immediately retrievable, then human behavior and events would be more predictable and thus more controllable...
APRIL 1970: West German Ambassador Count Karl von Spreti was murdered when the Guatemalan government refused to meet the guerrillas' demand for the release of 22 political prisoners. Curtis C. Cutter, U.S. consul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was wounded in the shoulder but escaped kidnaping by gunning his car around a roadblock. MAY 1970: Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, former President of Argentina, was kidnaped from his home in Buenos Aires and killed...
Three of the nine had worked in Guatemala. Thomas Melville, and his wife Marjorie, a former priest and a former nun, calm in their love, had joined John Hogan and five others in attempting to change the crushing poverty the Guatemalan people are living...