Guatemala Labor

The U.S. Postal Service announced an embargo on all international mail destined for Guatemala, which is embroiled in a labor disturbance. Postal officials said that until further notice, all mail destined for Guatemala will be returned to sender with the endorsement "service temporarily suspended." The embargo was requested by the Guatemala postal administration.

Guatemala police said the bodies of a university professor who led an 81-day teachers' strike this summer and three students were found in a canyon near San Carlos University. An anonymous telephone caller told authorities where the bodies could be found. Notes attached to the victims referred to the destruction of the leadership of the student organization to which all four belonged. The victims, all kidnaped within the past three weeks, were identified as Prof.

Under pressure from extreme rightist military officers and mounting labor unrest, President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo is facing the greatest challenge to his presidency in 2 1/2 years, according to diplomats and political analysts. Cerezo is halfway through his term as one of the few civilian presidents in Guatemalan history, but some observers say he is so weak politically that he may not be able to serve out his five-year term.

Under pressure from extreme rightist military officers and mounting labor unrest, President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo is facing the greatest challenge to his presidency in 2 1/2 years, according to diplomats and political analysts. Cerezo is halfway through his term as one of the few civilian presidents in Guatemalan history, but some observers say he is so weak politically that he may not be able to serve out his five-year term.

For Rosa Maria Mendoza, 1995 was a year of struggle. For the first eight months, she struggled to meet her quota, sewing 400 dozen buttons a day on MacGregor shirts at the Formosa Textiles factory in a gritty industrial park east of San Salvador. She struggled to survive on a $90 monthly wage, paying a baby sitter to care for her three children and walking half an hour to work every day because she could not afford bus fare.