Word: arevalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANTI-KOMMUNISM IN LATIN AMERICA, by Juan Jose Arevalo, translater from the Spanish by Carleton Seals, Lyle Stuart...
Late in March, 1963, Juan Jose Arevalo was smuggled into Guatemala City to be a leftist candidate in the crucial presidential elections. In reaction to his presence, the government of Guatemala toppled within days; rightist Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes was replaced by fartherrightest Enrique Peralta, a military dictator in the old style. If the election had ever taken place, Arevalo would probably have been victorious...
...Mention Arevalo to a Guatemalan peasant (or to almost any Latin American peasant), and he will chatter excitedly, full of enthusiasm. A former professor of philosophy, Arevalo returned to Guatemala in 1944 when the brutal dictator Jorge Ubico was overthrown; braced by his proclaimed policy of "spiritual socialism," he was a natural choice to lead his country. Guatemalans remember Arevalo's presidency for land reforms and the organization of labor...
...matter of history by this time, however, that during the terms of Arevalo and his successor Jacobo Arbenz, Communism rose to ascendency. Finally in 1954 a C.I.A.-inspired invasion overthrew Arbenz, and rightist democratic regimes followed...
...sites for the Bay of Pigs invaders. Guatemala's military men recommended against taking chances. Ydigoras went ahead anyway, and Arévalo sneaked into Guatemala. In fact, there were reports that Alejos arranged Arévalo's flight from Mexico in a private plane, and that Arevalo landed at a remote airstrip on one of Alejos' plantations...