Word: arana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others shot down the commander of Guatemala City's Guardia de Honor fort, won over the garrison and began shelling the capital's other two forts. A lucky hit on a powder magazine won the day spectacularly for Arbenz & friends. He and Colonel Francisco Javier Arana got a democratic constitution written and ran off a free election. It was won handily by Juan José Arévalo, a Guatemalan intellectual just back from exile in Argentina...
Married. Angier ("Angy") Biddle Duke, 37, heir to tobacco millions and the youngest U.S. ambassador (to El Salvador) in history; and Maria Luisa de Arana, 30, granddaughter of Spain's Marqués de Campo Real; he for the third time, she for the first; in Mexico City...
July seems to be the month for violence in Guatemala. In that month of 1949, the assassination of Colonel Francisco J. Arana, chief of the armed forces, sparked a brief, bloody revolt against the left-wing government of President Juan Jose Arevalo. The following July, anti-Arevalo demonstrations in Guatemala City touched off another uprising. Last week again, there were gunfire and bloodshed in the streets of the capital...