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