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Still, almost everyone agrees that Guatemalan military officials will remain the real authority behind the scenes. "In the first six months I'll have 30% of the power," Cerezo told TIME last month. "In the first two years I'll have 50%, and I'll never have more than 70% of the power during my five-year term." Says Guatemala City Archbishop Próspero Penados del Barrio: "Whoever becomes President is going to have to move with great caution. You cannot have a dialogue with the armed forces...
...transition to civilian rule should allow the U.S. to increase military aid to the Guatemalan army, which has been locked in a costly war with leftist guerrillas since the early 1980s. Although the rebels were nearly exterminated in a counterinsurgency drive four years ago, they have grown back to a force of 5,000, according to their own estimate. "The fighting has increased, and will increase no matter who takes office," said a guerrilla spokesman in Guatemala City last week. The heightened activity is most evident in the country's western department of San Marcos and the northern jungles...
...Amount Taiwan agreed to spend restoring two Guatemalan monasteries in the hope of maintaining official diplomatic ties 25 Countries that formally recognize Taiwan. Beijing is seeking to woo away Taiwan's allies in Central America, where many of the island's diplomatic partners...
...story of Guatemalan refugees, immigration, homosexuality, and human kindness made its way to Harvard Square park benches, Starbucks counters, and ATMs this Christmas thanks to a cutting-edge marketing scheme developed by its author: freebies. Grace, a novel set in Harvard Square in 1992, evokes memories of “charming coffee houses before the expansion of big business in Harvard Square†according to the author, Barbara Hindley, who placed copies of her novel throughout Harvard Square as gifts to perfect strangers...
...publicity, and there is now a street in Guatemala City named after her, as well as a UN scholarship,†she said. “In a sense, she’s almost become an Anne Frank type figure, she’s part of the Guatemalan public mythology...