The Conquest Tradition of Central America
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by Richard N.Adams
etween 1979 and 1984, the government of Guatemala added a particularly tragic chapter to this century's chronicle of "civilized" bru- tality. In the name of quell-
ing a leftist insurgency movement in the northern departments of the nation, the successive military regimes of General Lu- cas Garcia and General Rios Montt directed a campaign of mass terror against the na- tion's Indian population-a campaign so bloody that it recalled the worst atrocities of...