Washington Post, DC
I agree with John Hamilton, the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, that the United States has an interest in as well as "a moral obligation to help a government that is really trying hard" to combat the growing drug trafficking and organized crime destabilizing Guatemala ["Pit Stop on the Cocaine Highway; Guatemala Becomes Favored Link for U.S.-Bound Drugs," news story, Oct. 6].
However, those objectives should not be met by eviscerating restrictions on assistance to the Guatemalan military, which has not yet implemented all aspects of the country's peace accords and which drags its feet in cooperating with human rights investigations and an ongoing corruption probe.
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