Word: arevalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Welcomed the state visit of Juan Jose Arevalo, the "spiritual socialist" who let the Communists make nearly fatal inroads during his six years (1945-51) as President of Guatemala...
...news leads by carrying a pocket radio wherever he goes. In nearly 30 years (ten for the Trib) on the banana-belt beat, he has developed an uncanny facility for guessing when and where a story will break. In Guatemala, where he reported as early as 1948 that the Arevalo regime was Communist-infiltrated, he arrived on the scene only hours before Castillo Armas' successful uprising broke out in 1954. New York-born Dubois speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese, travels 100,000 miles a year from his base in Panama as a roving reporter and Hemisphere drumbeater...
...took to reading La Union Sovietica. He once showed a friend an illustration of a perfectly ordinary automatic bakery oven and exclaimed, "What wonders the Soviets have accomplished!" At the Bridge. By 1948 Arbenz had plenty of money, a smattering of political theory and a firm ambition to be Arevalo's successor. Squarely blocking him was his old revolutionary comrade, Colonel Arana, also a presidential candidate...
Backroom Advisers. Guatemala's Reds are native products; not one is a Moscow-polished, internationally seasoned operator, and most of them turned Communist only after the 1944 revolution. They got a foothold under professorial Juan José Arevalo, President from 1945 to 1951, who let them organize the country's first trade unions but had enough political sophistication to hold them in rein. Their growth in behind-the-scenes power came under Arbenz, Arevalo's chosen successor, whom they helped elect...
...nation from totalitarian (i.e., Communist) slavery." But some anti-Communist Guatemalans were beginning to wonder whether Arbenz wanted to save the nation from the Red totalitarians. No Communist himself, he seemed to be a prisoner of the Communist bureaucrats, politicos and union bosses who grabbed power during the Arevalo regime. Said a student wounded during last week's fray: "We Guatemalans must face up to the fact that ours is the only country west of the Iron Curtain where peaceful anti-Communist demonstrators are dispersed by government bullets...