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Closest behind Costa Rica is Guatemala, which has the most heavy Mayan population in Central America. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes has succeeded a pair of abbreviated administrations-the Communist-infiltrated regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954 by Carlos Castillo Armas with U.S. help, and Castillo Armas' corrupt regime, cut off by an assassin's bullet. With quiet humor and calculated eccentricity, President Ydigoras. 64, has made himself a popular figure. Refusing to live in the presidential palace, he has installed himself-along with a twittering aviary, a pet deer and a dwarf footman-in a remodeled museum...
...DISINHERITED (274 pp.)-Michel del Castillo-Knopf...
This is another lament for the 20th century by the Spaniard who wrote Child of Our Time (TIME, Oct. 20, 1958). In that moving autobiographical novel, Author del Castillo charted a sad trail from the corpse-strewn streets of Madrid to the concentration camps of France and Germany, to something like inner peace at a Jesuit school back in Spain. Still only 26, and now living in Paris, he tries in The Disinherited to revisit the Spanish revolution, which flamed around him when he was a child. At this distance, memory is small help, and the tales of heroes...
Substantially, Del Castillo tells the truth about the desperate Spain of his early childhood. He also makes the necessary point that the bitterness of starving Spaniards-as well as the idealism of their political champions-was brutally exploited by the Communist Party. But for all his abundance of feeling, Del Castillo lacks the equipment of the novelist, and for all his bitter experiences, he still lacks certain political insights. In an agitated foreword Del Castillo writes: "I have never belonged to the Party and am thus not a renegade. But neither am I anti-Communist ... I can easily conceive that...
...rule, the President himself reads the declaration, or entrusts it to a high-ranking Cabinet minister. Three weeks ago, when Independence Day came around once more. President Adolfo Lopez Mateos shattered tradition. For the first time in history, he had the Grito read by a woman: Amalia de Castillo Ledon, Mexico's leading feminist and the Under Secretary of Education for Cultural Affairs...