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Origins. Born to a lower-middle-class farm family in steaming Escuintla department. Graduated in 1936 from the military academy in Guatemala City, one year after Arbenz...
Armas, 41, the scrappy colonel who last year led a revolution against the Red-infiltrated government of Jacobo Arbenz and whipped Arbenz in a ten-day war. The first Guatemalan President ever to visit the U.S., he will stay 14 days, see New York City, Detroit, St. Louis, New Orleans, Houston...
...Sent next to Guatemala, where Communists were fastening their grip on that Caribbean republic, he spent one long evening with President Jacobo Arbenz and cabled Washington: "If he isn't a Communist, he'll do until a better one comes along." When the anti-Arbenz pressure exploded into revolution last year, Peurifoy, sport-shirted and packing a pistol, maneuvered the rival revolutionary chieftains into an agreement and averted a nasty civil war. As the U.S. saluted the ouster of Guatemala's Communists as a major victory, ambitious Jack Peurifoy was off to Bangkok to succeed "Wild Bill...
...repaid with a check on Comercial Guatemalteca, instead of with Bolanos' personal check? Why did wealthy Businessman Bolanos go to the President for a loan instead of to a bank? And how did Castillo Armas, a man of no conspicuous wealth when he overthrew Communist-coddling President Jacobo Arbenz a year ago, have $25,000 to lend...
GUATEMALA Crime & Punishment In the patio of Guatemala's Central Penitentiary last week, a firing squad carried out the first legal executions since Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas overthrew the Red-ridden government of Jacobo Arbenz in June 1954. The executed men: two former policemen who took part in the murder of ten anti-Communists during the last bloody days of the collapsing Arbenz regime...