List of Abbreviations

List of Abbreviations
AID
(U.S.) Agency for International Development
ASC
Asamblea de la Sociedad Civil
CACIF
Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial,
Industrial,
and Financial Associations
CCL
Clandestine Local Committees (guerrilla support networks)
CEG
Comité Episcopal de Guatemala (Guatemalan Episcopal
Conference)
CEH
Historical Clarification Commission, established by the United
Nations
CELAM
Latin American Episcopal Conference
CIA
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
CIC
Inter-Institutional Coordination Committees (government structure
to control rural communities)
CNUS
National Committee for Trade Union Unity CORDS
Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support
Program (Vietnam)*
CPP
Chief of Psychological and Paramilitary Warfare (CIA)
CRN
Committee for National Reconstruction (after the
1976
earthquake), Government of Guatemala
CRT
Regional Telecommunications Center
CUC
Committee of Peasant Unity
DC
Partido Democracia Cristiana
DCI
Director of Central Intelligence (CIA)
DD/P
Deputy Director of Plans (CIA)
EGP
Ejercito Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guerrilla Army of the Poor;
one of four groups composing URNG)
References to Vietnamese organizations are meant to show tactics used in Vietnam
that were later utilized in Guatemala.
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FAR
Secret anti-Communist Army (death squad)
Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces; one of four
groups composing URNG)
FMLN
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (El Salvador)
FRG
Frente Republicano de Guatemala (Ríos Montt's political parry)
FTN
Northern Transversal Strip (virgin land in the Ixcán claimed by
army generals) FYDEP
Fomento y Desarrollo de El Peten, or
Promotion and Development
of El Peten
GANA
Gran Alianza Nacional (winner of the 2003 presidential
elections)
GOG
Government of Guatemala
IAC
Intelligence Advisory Committee (U.S. government)
INTA
National Institute for Agrarian Development, also
Agrarian
Institute (the government agency in charge of legalizing the Ixcán
IOB
IRCA
JCMM
LADC
LOG
MAG
MAP
MINUGUA
UN mission in Guatemala
MITFCA Marin Interfaith Task Force (Marin, California)
MLN
National Liberation Movement (Movimiento de
Liberación
Nacional, remnants of Castillo Armas's political followers)
MMM
Mario Méndez Montengro (brother of JCMM and leader
of a
revolutionary party)
OAS
Organization of American States
OCS
Officer Candidate School (U.S. Army)
ODFIAG Guatemalan Archdiocesan Office on Human Rights ORPA
Revolutionary Organization of an Armed People (one of four
groups
composing URNG)
land
grants)
Intelligence Oversight Board (named by President Clinton)
International Railroads of Central America, a UFCO subsidiary
Julio Cesar Méndez Montenegro (president of Guatemala, 196670)
Latin American division chief (CIA)
La Liga de Obreros Guatemaltecos (workers' union founded by
Archbishop Rossell)
U.S. Military Assistance Group
Military Assistance Program (U.S. government)
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PDC
PGT
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Christian Democrats (same as DC)
Guatemalan Workers Parry (the Communist Party; member of
the URNG)
PID
Partido Institucional Democrático (founded by dictator Peralta
Azurdia, 1963-66)
PMA
Policia Militar Ambulante (rural military police)
PR
Partido Revolucionario (drifted rightward after its founding)
PRU
Provincial Reconnaissance Units (Vietnam)
REMHI
The Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory, sponsored
by the Guatemalan Episcopal Conference
SA/D
Special Assistant to the DCI (CIA)
UFCO
United Fruit Company
UMP
Permanent Military Units
UNE
Unidad Nacional de Esperanza (participant in runoff presidential
election, December 2003) URNG
Unidad Revolucionaria
Nacional de Guatemalteca (organization
that united the four guerrilla organizations)
USAID
U.S. Agency for International
Development
USCC
U.S. Catholic Conference
USIA
U.S. Information Agency
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