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In March 1999, President Clinton, on a visit to Guatemala, regretted the role the United States had played in fostering its thirty-sixyear civil war, admitting that it had been “wrong” in supporting a “brutal counterinsurgency campaign that slaughtered thousands of civilians.”¹ Such expressions of r...

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Published inPolitics of The Global p. 75
Main Author Muppidi, Himadeep
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Minnesota Press 17.06.2004
EditionNED - New edition
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Summary:In March 1999, President Clinton, on a visit to Guatemala, regretted the role the United States had played in fostering its thirty-sixyear civil war, admitting that it had been “wrong” in supporting a “brutal counterinsurgency campaign that slaughtered thousands of civilians.”¹ Such expressions of regret notwithstanding, Clinton also firmly turned down the requests of Central American countries to “cease or slow” the deportation of many undocumented Central Americans from the United States. Against the pleas of these countries that these people were the source of desperately needed remittances, Clinton asserted that it was important to “discourage illegal immigration” and to
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