Word: escuintla
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...Marian's students were appalled by the tough government measures taken to put down the uprising, decided on religious grounds to side with the rebels. So did the nun and her two priest friends, who met one day in November with a guerrilla leader in the village of Escuintla. When the Maryknoll superior in Guatemala, Father John M. Breen, heard of the meeting, he ordered the missionaries to stay out of politics or return to the order's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y. Instead, Sister Marian and the Melville brothers flew to Miami and then apparently doubled back...
Origins. Born to a lower-middle-class farm family in steaming Escuintla department. Graduated in 1936 from the military academy in Guatemala City, one year after Arbenz...
...people of the sunny Guatemalan town of Escuintla (pop. 31,000) last week chose as their mayor a candidate who was in faraway Moscow on election day. The absentee mayor-elect, Gabriel Carney, had not bothered to campaign for votes-that would have cut into his trip behind the Iron Curtain with Guatemala's Communist Boss Jose Manuel Fortuny. But he headed the local Labor (Communist) Party ticket, and the tightly organized slaughterhouse workers of Escuintla voted him into office...
Death and Meat. In Escuintla, an unpopular political chief was killed. In the capital, 16 people were killed by Government tank fire when machine-gunning started in the meat market of U.S. Citizen Alfredo Denby...
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