Word: castillos
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...born lawyer (at one time retained by the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co.) and a bitter enemy of the pro-Communist government that then ruled Guatemala. Last week Lawyer Cordova was again escorted over the border into Honduras. This time the ousting came from the government of President Carlos Castillo Armas, whose 1954 anti-Communist invasion-revolution Cordova had aided mightily...
...reason for such determination was clearly shown on the first day. Before the medal-giving at the palace, Ike dropped in at the hotel, spent quiet half-hours with Mexico's Ruiz Cortines and Guatemala's Carlos Castillo Armas. After the conference was over, Ike planned to stay an extra day to talk with the other Presidents. For Ike, and for most of the other chiefs of state, those intimate talks were the heart of the meeting...
...torn by bitter years of a Communist-written land reform that set peasant against landholder, last week came a quietly revolutionary reform of the reform. Going well beyond the vague notion that landless Indians "ought" to have some of the big estates held by a few families, President Carlos Castillo Armas' decree aimed at raising the agricultural health of all Guatemala...
...reform begun in 1952 by Red-led President Jacobo Arbenz actually moved 87,000 peasant families onto plots of their own. Some legally took over uncultivated parts of confiscated estates; more, inflamed by the example, simply seized land amid scenes of bloodshed and destruction. After Castillo Armas took power, many landlords grabbed back their holdings with equal violence. The bulk of the 1,950,000 indifferent, largely illiterate Indians stayed unbenefited on their subsistence corn patches high in the mountains...
Land reform will be financed as part of a fiveyear, $250 million economic development program announced by Castillo Armas last week as Guatemala put its new constitution and Congress into formal operation. The U.S. may supply a fifth of the total sum, has already contributed $2,400,000 toward land resettlement. But other land reform funds will come from a tax that may prove to be the most revolutionary part of the law. The tax applies to untilled parts of large farms, and increases by 25% every year - up to five years -that the land is left unproductive. Though...