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Thanks, Ronnie, For The Debacle In Latin America

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June 2004
Jacob Wheeler Utne.com 
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My d?nouement came last fall in Guatemala when I took a break from studying Spanish to volunteer as an election accompanier for Mayan widows in a small municipality in those same western highlands where the military left their bloody trail. El General, Rios Montt, was back at it, using bribery and assassinations and intimidating journalists to steal the presidency. He was unsuccessful, thanks to the eyes of several thousand United Nations' monitors watching over the election, but Montt's mere candidacy proved that, even as Ronald Reagan sat in his California home, shielded from the public, his memory dying and his heart waiting to follow, the man's awful legacy is still very much alive in Central America today.

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