WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06626234
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2020
• Case Number: F-2016-02132
• Publication Date: February 1, 1978

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Weekly Situation Report
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International Terrorism
1 February 1978
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1 February 1978
ARTICLES
Guatemalan Exchange: Guerrilla Leaves, Politician Released
On 17 January Mario Alberto Dominguez Morales, a member
of the Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP), suffered seven
bullet wounds in a gunbattle with the Guatemalan National
Police. Three members of the EGP were killed in the encoun-
ter. Dominguez was placed under arrest following the shoot-
out and taken to the hospital in Mazatenango in serious
condition. On 24 January Dominguez was spirited away with
suspicious ease from the hospital by a group of masked men.
Two days later an unidentified person phoned the Costa Rican
ambassador at dawn and told him that Dominguez had been left
at his garage door and that Dominguez' life or death had
become the responsibility of the Costa Rican embassy. After
this the EGP let the Guatemalan government know that the
release of EGP prisoner Roberto Herrera Ibarguen, presi-
dential advisor and member of the council of'state, would be
contingent on Dominguez being granted asylum and safe transit
to Costa Rica. The governments of Guatemala and Costa Rica
quickly worked out the details and the Guatemalan Red Cross
flew Dominguez to San Jose on 28 January. He describes his
removal from the Mazatenango hospital as a "kidnaping" and
not a rescue and says that the men who took him from the
hospital were not EGP members. Herrera, whose family had
already paid U.S. $1.3 million ransom, was released on 30
January. a month after his abduction.
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