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...LIKE consistency you will love the Reagan Administration. Last week officials in Washington said the U.S. will end a four year freeze on arms sales to Guatemala to help the month old Rios Month regime fight leftist guerillas. The Administration claims Rios Montt, who took power through a coup against the extreme right Lucas Garcia government, has already significantly improved human rights conditions in Guatemala. So, the Guatemalans will receive $4 million in spite parts for the American made helicopters they are using against the leftist rebels. In addition, Washington wants to give Rios Montt $50,000 in military training...
Last March, Guatemala held elections that were widely believed to be fraudulent, Gen. Anibal Guevara, Minister of Defense under Lucas Garcia, was chosen to lead the country. Rios Montt's coup a week later prevented Guevara from assuming power this summer...
...group of junior officers who overthrew the repressive regime of General Fernando Romeo Lucas García last month has produced a dramatic change of atmosphere. The reason: the enthusiasm and apparent dedication of the born-again Christian who heads the three-man junta, General Efrain Ríos-Montt...
...onetime presidential candidate and a member of the California-based Christian Church of the Word, Ríos-Montt seems to have set out to reform his country overnight. Relying on "God, my master, my king," as he says in his speeches, he has ordered the arrest of at least two dozen former officials on a variety of charges. He has called for a spiritual and moral transformation, promising "absolute respect for human rights." He has urged all priests who fled into exile during the previous regime to return without fear of reprisal, and permitted university students to hold...
Nobody suggests that Ríos-Montt has yet addressed himself to such endemic Guatemalan problems as poverty, hunger and civil war. But he has done a notable job of gaining public trust as he restored order in the capital. He faces some opposition from the politicians, who want him to announce a date for new elections, and even from within the junta. But other Guatemalans are wondering if it would not be better to give the born-again general a chance to demonstrate what else he can accomplish...