Word: arbenz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jittery President Jacobo Arbenz saw it, every sign spelled plot. Volunteers reportedly were signing up in a "liberation army" gathering across the Honduran border under exiled Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas. A retired air force colonel, pretending to check the engine of a sports plane, zoomed mysteriously off to El Salvador, landing in a meadow en route to pick up a friend. Independent newspapers were reporting the hemisphere's growing sentiment against Arbenz' Communist-coddling with a factual thoroughness that the Reds regarded as downright traitorous. One midnight last week, with pressure building up, Arbenz assembled his Cabinet, which...
Guatemalans were looking nervously over their shoulders last week, as the pro-Communist government of President Jacobo Arbenz began to crack down on its opponents. A dozen prominent citizens made sudden dashes for asylum in foreign embassies; hundreds went into hiding. The country's leading aviator climbed into his Cessna and fled to El Salvador. The chief of the anti-Communist Workers Committee, newly named to the post after the body of the former chief was found floating in Lake Atitlán, disappeared. Plain-clothes police bustled around the capital, searching houses, running down fugitives, laying ambushes...
Time for Truce? Guatemala's President Jacobo Arbenz, the proud and stubborn army officer who has traveled so long and so far with the Reds, suddenly decided that a personal meeting between President Eisenhower and himself might "ease the present tense situation." Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello called in U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy and had what he later described as a "most cordial" talk on improving relations. Toriello tried hard to put over the idea that the issue really keeping the two countries apart is the United Fruit Co.'s troubles with the Guatemalan government, and that...
Just what the cars carried was the secret of President Jacobo Arbenz, his fellow colonels, and the Red gun merchants. But the weapons were thought to be mostly rifles, automatic arms, mortars and light artillery, all of them with overflowing quantities of ammunition...
...figure 32, which stung President Arbenz, is currently marked on pavements, tires, lunch pails and even the presidential residence in Guatemala City. As every Guatemalan knows, it is the number of the article of the country's constitution that bans "political parties of an international or foreign character." If Arbenz conscientiously enforced Article 32, life would be harder for Guatemala's Communists. There is no sign that he intends to do anything of the sort...