Word: arbenz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evenings later I went to call on a government official who lives on a hill at the end of a lonely dirt road not far from the Aurora airport. He spoke frankly about local politics, and agreed that President Arbenz's political future was not too bright. About midnight, the phone rang. It was a crony saying that the city's lights had gone out. As he spoke, the lights dimmed in our house, then went out. The night was pitch black. It was Guatemala's first apagoÓn (blackout). Said my friend: 'Perhaps...
...thing that they had been talking about was possible revolt against the Arbenz regime. Reporter Rosenhouse was collecting material for the cover story scheduled that week on President Arbenz (TIME. June 28). At the time the revolt began. TIME Bureau Chief Bob Lubar was on his way to Honduras from Mexico City to cover the rebel forces, and three part-time correspondents had been alerted to help cover the Arbenz story: Robert Clark in San Salvador, Nick Agurcia in Tegucigalpa, and Henry Wallace from Havana, who was in Honduras reporting the United Fruit Co. strike...
...Reds. What kind of regime would Castillo Armas' be? Since he marched under the banner of antiCommunism, he will doubtless deal sternly with any real Reds or their sympathizers in the overthrown government of former President Jacobo Arbenz-if he can catch them. Of Arbenz and his Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello, Castillo Armas said: "These men are criminals . . . responsible for torturing and killing many people." He froze the assets of the ex-President and 99 of his cohorts, and seized Arbenz' 6,700-acre showplace cotton plantation...
...there, too, went Jacobo Arbenz-after first forcing the Government Development Bank to extend a second mortgage on his cotton farm for $200,000 payable to his wife. He is also accused of having taken funds from the Treasury. Other government fat cats, who had done their looting earlier, were in the Salvadoran embassy; their six 1954 Cadillacs crowded the ambassadorial courtyard...
Mobs plundered Arbenz' luxurious house (finding, among more valuable spoils, stacks of Communist propaganda and four bags of earth, one each from Russia, China, Siberia and Mongolia). More ominously, a Communist judge who last year sent four alleged plotters to death without trial was himself executed by a firing squad. That showed that the new junta means business with any Communist criminals it can get its hands...