Word: arevalo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidents of Guatemala and El Salvador met, agreed to name three commissioners each (the other republics were invited to do the same) to draw up a plan by next March for closer Central American union. Guatemala's President Juan Jose Arevalo, who had seen his 1945 proposals for customs union stalled by local interests, spoke again for action. "This is the moment for firm decisions," he said, "not half-baked ones...
...Governments invited Costa Rica to join them in doing away with passports for travel between their countries, using a Central American travel card instead. Costa Rica accepted, and Julio Acosta, Minister of Foreign Relations, signed with the Salvadoreans and started for Guatemala City. On his way he read Arevalo's speech, decided that "half-baked" had been aimed at his country. He returned to Costa Rica, leaving the cause of Central American union about where it was. It was the sort of thing that always seemed to keep the five states from getting together...
Guatemala. Last fortnight Guatemala's President Juan Jose Arevalo rose from bed in plaster cast and dressing gown (TIME, Dec. 31) to denounce a fellow revolutionary whom he had dismissed from the Finance Ministry for acts jeopardizing the fruits of 1944's revolution...
...that it would make you weep." They felt that what they needed was a president who would treat them right. Most Guatemalans (even the distrustful Indians who form a large part of the population) felt that they had such a man in big, handsome President-elect Juan José Arevalo...
This week Guatemalans lined up peacefully to vote for Juan José Arevalo, who plans to introduce "enlightened socialism," and his chief opponent, the State Department's friend Adrian Recinos. All Central America watched this pattern of successful revolution...