From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Military Aid to Guatemala?
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:40:19 GMT

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Military Aid to Guatemala?

	On a visit to Guatemala, US Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney 
told officials that the US could renew military aid to Guatemala, which was 
suspended following a massacre by the army of civilians at Santiago Atitlan 
in December of 1990. Cheney met with the president, the human rights 
ombudsman, and Defense Minister Jose Garcia, who said that Cheney's 
visit strengthened the "friendly ties" between the two countries' armies in 
that "there are often no borders between men in uniform who defend the 
same principles."
	US Ambassador Thomas Stroock said on Feb. 12 that the US is 
working to prevent the naming of a United Nations "special rapporteur" to 
Guatemala and will vote for only UN advisory services instead. The 
appointment of a special rapporteur--proposed by several organizations at 
the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva--would place 
Guatemala in the category of countries that seriously and systematically 
violate human rights. Strook defended the US position by saying that 
human rights violations happen all over the world, and that the 
Guatemalan government is making efforts to restore respect for human 
rights. But he added that the US will not lift its travel advisory which 
recommends that US tourists not go to Guatemala because of the ongoing 
violence. A United Nations report on disappearances reveals nearly 3,000 
unresolved cases of disappearances in Guatemala.

--Weekly News Update (Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New 
York, 339 Lafeyette St, NY, NY 10012; (212) 674-9499.)

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