Guatemalan Officers Named in the Kidnapping of Mexican Citizen Guatemalan army captains Luis Galvez Llama and Mario Lopez Hernandez commanded the operation which involved the disappearance of Mexican peasant Joaquin Lopez in early June, according to the Human Rights Commission in the Mexican state of Tabasco. Area residents delivered a letter to Salinas describing Guatemalan military abuses such as planes flying over the border area, dropping bombs and frightening people. The helicopters were damaged by guerrilla anti-aircraft fire. The Congressional Energy Commission reported that 128 foreign companies are interested in exploiting petroleum. The Commission conducted a study aimed at writing a billpromoting foreign investment in Guatemalan oil production, according to radio broadcast Guatemala Flash.
Current laws contain obstacles which impede operation of foreign companies in Guatemala.
Fuentes said the fumigations flagrantly violate the rights of San Marcos residents. Although the sprayings are aimed at destroying poppy plantations, Fuentes said, they are indiscriminately damaging cornfields, fruit trees, forests and other vegetation. The military zone commander in San Marcos, Colonel Edgar Ovalle, advised the DEA and NASA to suspend aerial fumigations in the area. He said the chemicals are carried by the wind to nearby fields and forests. The DEA has been conducting aerial sprayings in Guatemala since 1987.