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...murdering and jailing his political opponents. In 1944, sick of Ubico, Arbenz resigned his captain's Commission, took to plotting in desultory fashion, and soon found it expedient to retire for a time to El Salvador. A nonviolent general strike finally eased Ubico out, but equally tyrannical General Federico Ponce replaced...
Revolutionary guns last week broke the five-year rule of Paraguay's aging (71) President Federico Chaves. The little (pop. 1,500,000), landlocked republic is totally dominated by the government's Colorado party, and Chaves, as party boss, had been tightrope walking his way through trouble since last December, when he ordered a rough shake-up of the cabinet. His foot finally slipped when he arrested an army major as a plotter. General Alfredo Stroessner, 41, the army's 6-ft., German-descended commander, angrily called for a showdown, and an unplanned, unwanted revolution...
...Americas' most complete dictatorships. After the presidency had changed hands four times in a year, Chaves, a self-educated lawyer and lifelong politico, engineered a coup that put bumbling Dr. Felipe Molas López, a 50-year-old dentist, in power in 1949. But even Don Federico could not stand the dentist long; in another coup, he installed himself as President. That was enough coups, he decided; next year he had himself elected...
This week, as his second elected term began, Don Federico found his country little changed. Smugglers were running much of the nation's cattle across the border into Brazil to escape unrealistic price controls on beef. Bureaucrats were selling illegal import and export licenses. And the important quebracho, tobacco and cotton trade with Argentina was logjammed against Juan Perón's nationalistic economy. Now exiles have become Paraguay's principal export; of the 1,500,000 population, more than 100,000 (some estimates run up to 500,000) are refugees abroad. Most are members...
...With Don Federico and his self-proclaimed doctrine of Spiritual Peace, Paraguay is somewhat better off than during the period of bloody revolutions (27 between 1904 and 1947). But the country is still on its knees, with no immediate prospects of getting on its feet...