It is also selective; this seems to be a South America without drug dealers or left-wing guerrillas.

They had been accused of collaborating with left-wing guerrillas.

The problem is not just left-wing guerrillas or right-wing paramilitaries.

The left-wing guerrillas were also responsible for a number of atrocities committed in this period.

Between 1969 and 1979 left-wing guerrillas accounted for 3,249 kidnappings and murders.

For their part, left-wing guerrillas also seem to have expanded their theater of action.

For more than three decades, left-wing guerrillas have fought a series of rightist governments in Guatemala.

The changes are intended to bolster the 1996 peace accords between the Government and the left-wing guerrillas.

But that has a counterargument among people who do not approve of left-wing urban guerrillas and their bloody war with the police.

Sporadic clashes between Government troops and left-wing guerrillas continued to be reported.