Word: arevalo
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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...
...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...
...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...