Word: arevalo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before the world," he cried, "I accuse President [Juan Jose] Arevalo of Guatemala of fomenting and supplying arms for a revolution in Nicaragua. If this revolution breaks out, it may result in a Central American conflagration. I am ready to repel this aggression and it may turn out to be a boomerang for Arevalo, who is interfering in the internal affairs of Nicaragua...
Actually, squarejawed, mystical President Juan Jose Arevalo is no real socialist, but a warm-hearted man full of the necessity for improving the lot of his countrymen. His books, written while he was a university professor in Argentina, abound with denunciations of Communism as "the lowest form of social organization." He sits up to all hours drawing blueprints for school improvements. He discourses by the hour to such visitors as Cinemactor Tyrone Power on the urgent need for a Central American union (TIME, Sept...
...years five Agriculture Ministers have departed because of differences of policy. But professorial, impractical Juan Arevalo has taken no decisive step either to make socialism a permanent feature of his Government, or to abandon it and sell the seized lands back to private ownership...
Nevertheless, the Army stands by him. Five times his opponents have tried to overthrow him. Once his 31-year-old War Minister, Major Jacobo Arbenz, yanked him away from a wedding at 10 p.m. with the news that a revolution was due at 2. Arevalo protested that he still had a few more hours for the wedding party before confronting the revolution...
...continental guide" for the assertion of national sovereignty. To some Mexicans Arévalo's brave words may have sounded like mention of rope in the house of the hanged; Mexico today is pondering how to attract foreign capital to help reorganize her hopelessly inefficient oil industry. But Arevalo had a purpose. He was talking at the United Fruit Co., whose north coast plantations had been paralyzed for four weeks by the largest strike in Guatemalan history...