Western Hemisphere Policy Watch reports that members of the conservative ARENA party serving in the Central American Parliament were ambushed and killed on a Guatemalan back road in what is being described as a terror attack. The remains of Eduardo D’Aubuisson, William Pichinte and Jose Ramon Gonzalez were found with that of an unidentified fourth man by authorities after it was noticed that they were missing from an official motorcade. Head of the Guatemalan National Police’s organized crime unit, Luis Arturo Herrera, was one of several individuals arrested for the brutal murders.

In an increasingly volatile area of the world, with a resurgent Communist movement gaining power and support, the assassination of three men opposed to the formation of a new Soviet Union on America’s southern borders should raise alarm bells in Washington, but political in-fighting over Iraq ,among other things, keeps our leaders attention away from the dangers brewing a stones throw, or missile launch, away.