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development policies targeting export diversification and development of the Franja. Again, it is
conceivable that the spike in state sponsored violence in 1971 subdued the domestic population
for a period that extended past the period of state sponsored violence. The final period where
there were economic development policies which should have been accompanied by high state
sponsored violence, but had low levels of state sponsored violence was in 1993 and 1994 under
President Carpio. In this instance it is possible that enough time had passed since the
implementation of the economic development policies, that it was no longer necessary to
maintain high levels of state sponsored violence.
No Economic Development Policies, High State Sponsored Violence: Pattern Does Not Exist
The lone instance of an economic development policy not matching the framework is in
the Montt administration in 1982.
34 This period would also include the administration of General Victores.
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His economic development policies did not fit the framework
and there was the highest levels of state sponsored violence in Guatemala over the entire period.
Clearly a portion of the state sponsored violence was by some means related to economic
development policies, but since economic development was a function of security it was less
clear that this administration fits the pattern developed by the frameworks.