Word: arevalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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July seems to be the month for violence in Guatemala. In that month of 1949, the assassination of Colonel Francisco J. Arana, chief of the armed forces, sparked a brief, bloody revolt against the left-wing government of President Juan Jose Arevalo. The following July, anti-Arevalo demonstrations in Guatemala City touched off another uprising. Last week again, there were gunfire and bloodshed in the streets of the capital...
Next day, in the name of President Jacobo Arbenz, who took over from Arevalo last March, the government radio broadcast a threat: the "enemies of the people" planning the overthrow of his government would be given "a lesson they would never forget." Undeterred, a crowd of 10,000 gathered in front of the National Palace, chanted the national anthem, flourished anti-Communist placards...
When, two days later, Guatemala's Dr. Ismael Gonzalez Arevalo asked the Assembly to rise for a moment of tribute to the soldiers who had died in the U.N. cause in Korea, all delegates stood up except the Russians, their satellites and the Yugoslavs...
Best guess was that Patterson had trod on the pink toes of President Juan Jose Arévalo's "Spiritual Socialist" government by harping too strongly on the influence of Communists in Guatemala. No responsible observer has claimed that Arevalo's government is run from Moscow. But some open Communist sympathizers (the party itself is legally banned) have risen to key positions in the labor movement, and have taken advantage of government support to badger U.S. companies...
Last month Arevalo apparently decided that he had had enough of Patterson's direct talk. At about the same time that he asked for the ambassador's recall, he posted extra guards at the residency and let word get about 'that it was to protect Patterson against a threat to his life. A few days after that, the ambassador departed...