Word: arbenz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else outside the Iron Curtain was there such a May Day as Guatemala celebrated last week. There, in a nation just four hours by plane from the Panama Canal, 20,000 government supporters paraded with floats and banners attacking the U.S. and praising Russia and Communist China. President Jacobo Arbenz proclaimed "our decision to move forward against native reactionaries and privileged foreign countries [and] forge a Guatemala which cannot be soiled by a foreign hand." The President shouted: "The accusation that we encourage Communism is false!" Then he turned and embraced Communist Labor Chief Victor Manuel Gutierrez...
...handful of clever Reds who took part in the revolution. They have no mass support worthy of the name, and get their only real power from a working alliance with the nationalist revolution's most fanatical spokesman: Guatemala's army boss, strong man and elected President, Colonel Arbenz...
...after the 1944 revolution. They got a foothold under professorial Juan José Arevalo, President from 1945 to 1951, who let them organize the country's first trade unions but had enough political sophistication to hold them in rein. Their growth in behind-the-scenes power came under Arbenz, Arevalo's chosen successor, whom they helped elect...
United Fruit appealed to President Jacobo Arbenz to stay or reverse the seizure, but this week Arbenz rejected the appeal...
...Guatemala of President Jacobo Arbenz, no Communist himself but a grateful friend of Red and pro-Red supporters, it has become a dangerous thing to be an open antiCommunist. Last week Guatemala City newspapers told of the unforgettable lesson that anti-Red Law Student Mario Quiñónez received at the hands of the police...