Talk:Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García

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I removed this piece <<<General Kjell Laugerud was President during a time of extreme right wing "death squad" violence and repression in Guatemala>>>, beacuse I don't think it describes well the real political climate existing in his years of term that was instead improving in confront with the past. See this page about the 1974-78 period: [1] ZigZag2000 09:59, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it again. Laugerud was actually more moderate than the generals before and after him, maybe he could have done more to stop the violence, but he probably feared a bullet himself. Intangible2.0 00:42, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the edit you removed was written in a POV style. I added some more information based on more reliable sources. Notmyrealname 05:24, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why was Yugoslavia aiding Guatemalan government in the Guatemalan Civil War?

The other countries aiding it make sense, but non-aligned, socialist Yugoslavia is extremely unusual. @MirkoS18: do you know anything about this topic? This is something also mentioned over at the last paragraph of article Josip Broz Tito#Non-Alignment and I think needs explanation. I did not find much on the Internet. –Vipz (talk) 17:27, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, my short answer would be that I don't know. If nevertheless I permit myself to do some wild guessing based on some readings (notably Jakovina, etc.) there may be some explanation. It may be influenced by overarching ideological reason, opportunistic choice or some unholy alliance of the two. Yugoslav stakeholders would occasionally and in closed off venues evaluate some very horrible events as ultimately beneficial (for example, persecution of communists in Indonesia) believing that it will on one hand decrease Soviet influence (opportunistic reason) and strengthen claim to differentiated roads to socialism (ideological reason). Belgrade would also occasionally perceive some Latin American revolutionary movements as too radical and linked to Moscow (Agustín Cosovschi is writing about it, about ways in which Yugoslavia would be pushed out by more radical options. You can follow it in Africa as well) and relations with for example Cuba and Nicaragua were far from perfect (hence the importance of Guyana for Belgrade). Also, in 1980s (following the oil shock and president Tito death) deep economic crisis and internal disunity forced the country to sell its weapons to more or less anyone without too much ideological or even ethical consideration but rather economic ones (this seems to be the case occasionally in the post-Yugoslav period as well). Of course, all of this may only work out as some informed lucky guess, but may also be terribly terribly wrong.--MirkoS18 (talk) 18:36, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you lots for providing me some insight into this! Even though economic reasons seem most plausible to me (this was taking part in late 1970s), we'll have to find out and see if that's true. –Vipz (talk) 22:02, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]