US indicates it's trying to mend Guatemalan ties
| San Pedro Sula, Honduras
The United States, intent on bolstering anticommunist governments in turbulent Central America, is mending relations with Guatemala despite charges of continuing human rights violations on a massive scale.
A reappraisal of US ties with Guatemala had been in the making for at least six months as a brutal civil war between the Army and left-wing insurgents gathered momentum, according to diplomatic sources.