A GUATEMALAN ARMY PATROL HAD AND ENCOUNTER WITH ELEMENTS OF THE

Created: 3/1/1992

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1. OKUATEMALAX AArtT PATROL FROM IKE TASK FORCE "QUETZAL" HAD AN ARXEO LNCOUKTEA WITH ELEAZXTS OP THE IEVOLUTIOXAAT ORGANIZATION OF THE PEOPLE IN ARAS (ORPa) LUIS lAKATA IaTTALIOH, AT IRC FIHCA $AX JOSE ALTAflllA, KtAA CO LOIS A. QUEX AN CO DEPARTMENT, CUAIEKAU. THIS AREA MAS IEEX THE SCENE OP HEAVT AMD FXEQUENT CLASHES BETWEEX AAMT AMD CUtRRILLA FORCES, SOLDIERS RILLED AND TEX WOUNDED DURINC THE ueu

mWgj/fk} DURIKC THE ARMED IXCOU"TLX, TWO GUERRILLAS. ONE Or THEN. RAMON E LA MORA)) 1UENO, CARRIED AK IDENTIFICATION CARD FROM. THE AUTONOMOUS UHlTlRSlIT OF CHIAPAS, KLXICO. THE OTHERALSE CUaTEHAUK CI DO LA IX THl MAKE OF JOSE FIOOMIALE2)) ESTRADA. THIS GUERRILLA'S PSCVDOKTM WAS "PaXCHO" (THE GCATEMALAX aXAY HAS DCED THE TRUE NAME IDCMTiriCATIOHARGE PtRCQfTAGt OF THE ACTIYl ARMED GUERRILLAS). DURINC THE ACTION, THE ARKT TROOPS CaPIUREO OHCIFLE. with AMMUNITION,MM PISTOL, WITHUSSIAN HAND GRENADE. AM ICOMUERRILLA COMMUNICATIONS CODE book, TWO PACKSOfUUT HA*NESS.

THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HASORMAL COMPLAINT about THE KILLING OF DE LA MORA. CLAIMING that HC MASIT GUATEMALAN TROOPS.

HE guatemalan AAKT. dc LA MORA was assumed touatemalan carrying PaLSE MEXICANOnnON practice AhONC guatemalan guerrillas.auCOareported the mexican ckarccs that THE guatemala* ami haduicam. as will as ihe guatemalan sic* OF the SIOtT thai de la nora WaS killed while

participating in cuerrilla activities, it should be noted that over theuhr la of i'.iic" citutns have been captured while seryinc with guatemalan cuerrilla forces. ounc mexican woman strvincurse with the orpa "as captured and released to the custody of the "erica* government.

he oat before this encounter in which de la mora ahouerrillan the same area resulted im the deathuatemalan soldier and the serious houndihc of two others, including kajor_ jcsus efralw

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IWE CAN EXPECT THE KtXICAK LEFT TO TRY TO HAKE THIS INCIDENTERIOUS "HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION." IN OUR VIEW. THE KILLING OF DE LA MORA OCCURRED WHILE HE WAS ENGAGED IN MILITARY ACTIVITT WITH ARMED GUATEMALAN GUERRILLAS.