Guatemala M4 Rifles Arrive as the Army Buys American Weapons Again
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The U.S. government lifted in March the ban on arms sales imposed by Congress in 1977 for systematic human rights violations and assassinations perpetrated by Guatemalan state forces during the civil war, which left some 200,000 dead and missing between 1960 and 1996. That first shipment is part of a total purchase of 14,000 M4 rifles for more than five million dollars, said Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo, receiving the weapons. Despite t…
Guatemala has received its first shipment of military equipment from Washington since the lifting of a nearly half-century-long US arms embargo imposed due to human rights abuses. The approximately $5 million purchase includes rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, and equipment for night operations.
President Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala announced that the United States had terminated the ban on the export and sale of military equipment to his country.
The U.S. delivered military equipment to Guatemala for the first time in nearly 50 years, putting an end to an arms embargo imposed as a result of human rights violations in this Central American country, says Ms.
The shipment marks the first direct acquisition of this type in almost half a century after the lifting of a strict military veto imposed by Washington in 1978.
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