Bodies are once again being thrown from vans over the edge of mountains above Guatemala City. In the rural areas the civil patrols established by Rios Montt have been retained and supplemented by school patrols. Organized into parasecurity patrols. schoolchildren have been instructed to report on suspicious activities within their families and communities. Moreover. in Alta Verapaz over 4.000 internal refugees are being indoctrinated daily with classes in promilitary ideology. One Guatemalan described the situation by saying. "The entire energies of the Guatemalan Government are being directed toward security. There are no other plans." This problem of disappearances is not new to Guatemala. or to Central and Latin America.
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