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Guatemala's Communist-coddling, capitalist-baiting left-wing regime has shown Guatemalans time & again that an avowedly pro-labor government can be a harsh employer. Since Jacobo Arbenz, hand-picked successor of fuzzy "Spiritual Socialist" Juan José Arévalo, took over as President last March, five groups of government employees have gone out on strike for a fairer deal...
...March, Arias made a reckless grab for control of the independent Panama Trust Co. (TIME, March 19). The grab failed, but the bank was wrecked and had to close its doors. A fortnight ago, Ar-nulfo's opponents struck back by working up a run on the Government Savings Bank. This dose of his own medicine got Arnulfo mad. He suddenly moved to revoke the 1946 constitution and reinstate his own 1941 constitution, which gave the President broader powers and a longer term of office (six years instead of four...
...Reds had won the round; the strike had compelled Arbenz to show his hand. "We consider this a complete victory," said the rail union secretary. "The handwriting was on the wall of the boxcar," said a businessman. "Arbenz will follow Arévalo down the left side of the road...
What was it all about? The Reds who have bored into Guatemalan labor were boldly forcing a quick showdown with the country's new President Jacobo Arbenz. Only seven weeks ago, Colonel Arbenz took over from "Spiritual Socialist" Juan José Arévalo, who for six years had run the hemisphere's most left-wing regime...
...State Department hopes that Guatemala, under President Arbenz, will turn from Arévalo's leftist path. A property-holder as well as a militarist, he has repeatedly told fellow planters: "Don't worry, I'm not going to share my coffee fincas with anybody...