An Inclusive Litany

4/22/94

The New York Times, April 5, 1994:
Fed by rumors [from Mexico] that Americans were coming to kidnap children, cut out their vital organs and ship them to the United States for transplantation, an extraordinary panic has swept Guatemala over the last month.... The situation has become so serious that the United States Embassy is recalling some 200 Peace Corps volunteers from the countryside to the capital... and the State Department has warned Americans not to travel to the country.