Word: castillo
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...friends and followers whom he made ambassadors, administrators, judges. Most embarrassing to Garcia's successor was his appointment of Finance Minister Dominador Aytona to the governorship of the Central Bank of the Philippines. On the first day of the new administration, Macapagal's own appointee, Andres Castillo, arrived at the bank with an armored car and a force of constabulary rangers to oust Aytona. Ex-President Garcia shouted, "Police state," and his Nacionalista politicos denounced Macapagal as a "power-mad and power-hungry dictator...
...replace Lemus the moderates chose a six-man junta: three army officers, three civilians. Colonel Miguel Angel Castillo, at 44 the oldest junta member, was customs-guard chief under Lemus; Colonel César Yáñez Urias. 40, was a key officer at San Carlos Fort, where the country's ammunition is kept; Major Rubén Alonso Rosales, 35, shared in command of El Zapote Fort overlooking the presidential palace, where the army stored most of its weapons. The civilians-Dr. Fabio Castillo, 42, and Lawyers René Fortin Magaña, 29, and Ricardo Falla...
...fortnight ago, as Irma was walking home from a radio station where she delivers a 15-minute daily news commentary, she was confronted by one Gloria Castillo, a brawny, 150-lb. political action worker, who bosses the strongly pro-Ydigoras market women's union. According to Irma, Gloria roared: "You newspaper people are a bunch of sons of bitches. The old man is fed up with you." Then she grabbed Irma (95 Ibs.) by the hair, kicked and punched her senseless. When Irma regained consciousness, she had the makings of a shiner, sundry cuts and bruises, and a large...
...facing the invading forces of U.S.-backed Rebel Carlos Castillo Armas, Arbenz abandoned the presidency to make a panicky dash for safety in the Mexican embassy. He thereby won the scorn of a militant young Argentine leftist then temporarily living in Guatemala-Ernesto ("Che") Guevara. Said Che, who is now Castro's one-man brain trust: "If Jacobo Arbenz had been a man, he would have taken himself to the streets and fought...
...resolution opposing Communist domination of any Latin American nation. The disapproval among Che's friends in Guatemala was immediate and violent, and he was swept along by their passion. Two months later, with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as a silent partner, a Guatemalan colonel named Carlos Castillo Armas launched his counter-revolutionary invasion of the Red-dominated country. As F-47s swooped down over Guatemala City with U.S. pilots at the controls, Guevara dashed blindly around town trying to organize a resistance force. When Arbenz caved in without a fight, Guevara's wounded idealism and urge...