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countries and stopping any contacts with the URNG, as well as more money for better equipment and the removal of many local politicians. Cerezo admitted that he had had to submit to some of the military's demands to avoid a coup taking place. In August, there was a three-week general
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ensure that what he called the dark forces of the right would not be able to break the public order or the state. He vowed to change
Guatemala within his first 126 days. Some of his first actions as president were to force
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