Word: arevalo
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...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...
Juan Jose Arevalo has every right to be a bitter man. Both in office and from exile, he has watched the Latin American nations buffeted about by the worst of Western imperialism and capitalism. His protest has been recorded in a long line of volumes, some of the most widely-read political works in Latin America. Two of these have now been translated into English, The Shark and the Sardines and Anti-Kommunism in Latin America...
...latter work, Arevalo has created the concept of "anti-Kommunism,"--by which he means those policies used to combat social reform in the Latin republics. He describes the structural anti-Kommunism of the "Police Rulers," the anti-Kommunism of American capitalists, and the more sophisticated, determined anti-Kommunism of the organized Catholic Church, claiming that all work together to prevent social evolution. He points out that the United States' twentieth century diplomacy in Latin America has not recognized the difference between the threat of international Communism and the necessary reforms labelled...
...Arevalo's presentation of his case is staggering. He flogs the United States mercilessly, especially the McCarthy era with which he was so familiar. ("From an alliance against Hitler alive, the United States had gone on to an alliance with Hitler dead.") He mocks Eisenhower's statement that "nationalist self-sufficiency has gone out of style," calling the former President a self-styled "Christian Dior of politics...