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On Dec. 10, the Spanish government issued an international arrest warrant for Donaldo Alvarez Ruiz, Guatemala's interior minister during the government of Gen. Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia (1978-1982). The former minister is wanted in Spain for genocide, torture, and other crimes (see NotiCen, 2000-03-30). Spain also accuses him of being responsible for the 1980 assault in Guatemala on the Spanish Embassy in which 36 people burned to death. One of the 36 was Vicente Menchu, father of Nobel Peace Prize winner, and now member of the Guatemalan government, Rigoberta Menchu Tum. The hunt for the accused official in Mexico has thus far been fruitless, amid charges that the Mexican government has made a deal to let him escape.
According to various reports, Alvarez Ruiz left Guatemala after the March 1982 coup that installed Gen. Efrain Rios Montt as de facto president and went to live in Miami until 1989, when he moved to Mexico City. There, he was granted the FM3 residence permit,...
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