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...welcoming the Communists, the handsome naval officer, hero of the revolt that toppled Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, has entered into a formal alliance no Latin politico has tried since the days of Guatemala's hapless Jacobo Arbenz. In taking Red help, Larrazábal insisted that he is not one of them. "I am not a Communist," he wrote in his acceptance letter. "On the contrary, I am a Catholic of unbreakable faith and a liberal democrat. My acceptance of Communist support does not signify any commitment, present or future." But by running...
...moderation. "I believe in free unions," he said, "but many of our unions were infiltrated by Communists -especially the boards of directors. I believe there should be periodic elections to ensure against continued rule by corrupt men." As for Communism itself, he said, "Guatemala [under Red-dyed President Jacobo Arbenz] was like a small girl who caught smallpox. After the disease was over the scars remained. Now the scars are beginning to disappear...
MARIO MENDEZ MONTENEGRO, 47, leader of the liberal Partido Re-voludonario (P.R.) that was outlawed in last October's M.D.N.-sponsored quickie election as too Communist, despite the fact that he once went into exile after plotting against Arbenz. Reinstated by the regime of current Provisional President Guillermo Flores Avendano, Mendez Montenegro calls Communists "my worst enemies...
...year through the old and perfectly legal custom of confidenciales-a confidential fund that he could spend as he saw fit. With paternal pride, Castillo launched ambitious health-and-education programs, plastering the country with signs urging peasants to "Wash Your Hands Before Eating." To replace Arbenz' helter-skelter expropriation of rich plantations, he started a gradual system of land reform. But in the backlands, rightist planters scaled pay down 30% from the Arbenz rates...
...Immediately after Castillo Armas' assassination, the government announced that the guard who shot him down was a Communist. Since that would indicate an unpardonable and unexplainable lapse in the government's security measures, the announcement seemed rather to be a hyperbolic way of expressing the fear that Arbenz (now plotting in Uruguay) and his exiled henchmen might try to regain power in the confusion. It seemed more likely that the assassin was a fanatic from the same mold as the assassin who last September killed Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio Somoza. But Castillo's friends moved quickly...