Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called in U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy, sought to see what could be saved, offered to resign. Peurifoy's diplomatic answer was that he would certainly like to see the bloodshed end. He was barely back at his embassy when the phone rang again. It was Colonel Carlos Enrique Diaz, chief of the armed forces...
Would the Ambassador come to his house for an urgent conference? Farewell Address. Through deserted, shuttered streets went Peurifoy. Five top-ranking colonels were there, and they wanted to know whether the U.S. Ambassador would recognize a junta headed by Diaz, and help stop the fighting. What Peurifoy had to say, in the 2¾-hour talk, was not reported. But at the end Diaz and two other officers went to give Arbenz the word. The President, forced to bow for the first time in his stubborn life, burst into a rage, stormed and argued. Finally he acceded, and went...
...have made the momentous decision," he said, "to abandon the presidency. I leave power in the able hands of Colonel Diaz. I urge all revolutionary organizations to support him. I hope this decision will save the revolution...
...Diaz followed, crediting Arbenz with doing "what he thought was his duty," and promising to preserve the social reforms of his regime. Like Arbenz and Rebel Castillo Armas, Diaz is a professional officer; the three were schoolmates at Guatemala's military academy. He is 40, popular in the army and among the people, less provincial than the narrow, little-traveled Arbenz. Last year he publicly declared: "There will be no Communists in the officers' corps while I am in command." He supported Arbenz from duty and in the belief that Arbenz' land reform was good; there...
...fiesta marking its arrival began with an open-air Mass and a blessing of the machine. Then the Friends of Sanare feasted on rum and roast veal, and danced their traditional step, the tamunangue. Next day, in Sanare's old colonial plaza, they gathered and Mayor Rodriguez Diaz climbed upon the tractor...