GUATEMALA THE CLIMATE FOR INSURGENCY(TRUTH COMMISSION I)

Foreign Assessment Center Guatemala: The Climate for Insurgency An Intelligence Assessment : • : PA 81-10073 February 1981 Carp 011 Approved for helic Pal DEC 1984 Guatemala: The Climate for Insurgency (U) The Radical Left The Guatemalan radical left-including both terrorist groups and sympathetic front organizations represent- ing labor, peasants, and students-is the most tena- cious in the hemisphere. It has survived constan repression and vitiating internal dissension. Drawing on their yea...