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President Carlos Castillo Armas last week called on Guatemalans to go to the polls Oct. 10 and decide whether or not he should remain in power. The election call came astonishingly soon after the President's June coup against the pro-Red regime of Jacobo Arbenz. But the terms of Castillo Armas' decrees made the election practically defeat-proof...
Only one slate, from a newly formed National Anti-Communist Front, will be offered, on the theory that the people are "tired of politics." Next the voter will be asked: "Do you wish President Castillo Armas to continue in office for a term to be fixed by the Constituent Assembly?" He can answer si or no, but cannot vote for anyone else...
Just why anti-Communist Castillo Armas chose to hurry into such an obvious one-candidate election was a puzzler; it seemed unlikely that his motive was to try to force a rigid, Soviet-style show of unanimity out of the people. More likely, the election was scheduled to provide a form of constitutional legality for his regime before any strong opposition could develop. Ironically, all present signs show that he could have won a free and secret ballot just about as easily...
...right of diplomatic asylum, almost a sacred thing to Latin Americans, prevailed last week for Guatemala's deposed pro-Communist President Jacobo Arbenz; armed with a safe-conduct from new President Carlos Castillo Armas, he flew off to Mexico. With him into exile went the Communist main cogs of his government and others of the goo-odd asylum seekers who had turned Guatemala City's foreign embassies into crowded madhouses for 2½ months. These and earlier departures brought the greatest mass dash for diplomatic refuge in Latin America's history close...
...deal with such determined adversaries, the new President last week made a decision that shocked his liberal supporters. To boss the secret police, Castillo Armas picked Guatemala's toughest cop, José Bernabé Linares, 51. As most Guatemalans know, when Linares last ran the secret police under the late Dictator Jorge Ubico his men submerged political enemies in electric-shock baths and perfected a head-shrinking steel skull cap to pry loose secrets and crush improper political thoughts. Whatever else Linares' appointment meant, it suggested that Castillo Armas' latest command decision was not to toy with...