Word: castillos
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...phoned the ambassador. "Senor Peurifoy," he said, "please come to my house.'' With a .38 Colt in his shoulder holster. Peurifoy drove through the empty, fear-haunted streets to the armed forces headquarters, where Diaz was staying. Diaz brought up a plan to talk peace with Castillo Armas in the neighboring republic of El Salvador. But even as they talked, other officers in the next room were openly grumbling that Diaz ought to be booted for his softness to the Communists. Uneasily aware of this, Diaz abruptly stood up and went in to stall them...
...Bleak Deadlock. Next day Castillo Armas and Monzón flew to San Salvador for the first meeting in the gingerbread presidential palace. In high hopes, the two old friends started talks at 3 p.m. But twelve hours later, there was only a bleak deadlock. The issue: Which of them should take top power and responsibility? Sleepless Jack Peurifoy learned in alarm of the impasse and caught a plane to San Salvador. Looking like a dashing sportsman in a green Tyrolean hat and checked jacket, he talked separately with Monzón and Castillo Armas (whom he met there...
Next Crisis. For Peurifoy, two crises were past, but another will follow soon. The colonels' agreement left Monzón heading a junta of five officers-two of his own followers plus Castillo Armas and another rebel colonel. After 15 days, the junta is to choose a President to govern until democratic elections can be held...
...instability of this arrangement was obvious, and made all the more so by Castillo Armas' triumphal reception in the capital. Sick of Red terrorism and full of respect for a fighting, anti-Communist crusader, the people quite plainly preferred Castillo Armas to Palace Revolutionary Monzón. "Libertador!" they hailed the little colonel...
Latin Americans generally assumed that the U.S. was in Castillo Armas' corner and after he invaded Guatemala, a dank breeze of Communist-abetted anti-Yankeeism swept through some of the hemisphere's countries. Students squawked in demonstrations in Panama, Uruguay, Chile Peru, Cuba, Argentina and Honduras: a U.S. flag was burned in Chile. But there was none of that in Guatemala, where the U.S. role was understood and deeply appreciated. As the overthrown regime's victims were dug out of their graves and the luckier survivors emerged from their cells Guatemalans raised grateful cheers...