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Report from Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Antonio Pérez-Esclarίn
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Guatemala, the largest Central American country, is suffering today under a system of terror. The government of Colonel Carlos Arana Osorio has decided to eliminate the opposition by annihilating it. Mere suspicion of being an active "Communist," "Castroist" or "Leftist" can lead to imprisonment and death. And under the facade of institutional government, and in the name of pacification, "institutional terror" rules this agricultural country in which 2.2 per cent of the population possesses 70 per cent of the cultivatable land.

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Research Article
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Worldview , Volume 14 , Issue 11 , December 1971 , pp. 10 - 11
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1971

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