Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along with Chile, Brazil and Peru, had taken the lead in calling for common defense against international Communism. No nation opposed the resolution last week, but Mexico, Venezuela and Guatemala wanted it broadened to include all totalitarianism. Said Venezuela's Rómulo Betancourt: "Because Communist ideas inspire against peace and security we support the resolution, but we also want to condemn the existence of other types of dictatorships which are an equal menace...
...Neighbors. Meanwhile, Neighbor Guatemala took its stand behind the partisans of right-wing Editor Otilio Ulate, whose election had been annulled by Costa Rica's Congress. The rebels' commandeered TACA DC-35 made 19 trips to Guatemala for guns and ammunition. Led by a M.I.T.-trained planter [named] Jose Figueres, the Ulatistas fought so well that the government had to ask for more help...
...Ulate won the war, Somoza stood to lose the fat profits of a business he had been running with the family of Costa Rica's ex-President Calderon Guardia. The business: selling Nicaraguan cattle in Costa Rica, contrary to the laws of both countries. On the other hand, Guatemala's mildly leftist President Juan Jose Arevalo was quite willing to help Costa Rica's rightists if that would hurt old enemy "Tacho" Somoza...
There would also be discussions about European colonies in the New World (Guatemala, fresh from a tiff with Britain over Belize, wants them declared a menace) and about recognition of de facto governments (one de facto regime, Nicaragua's, will be represented at Bogota). But the chief talk will be about money...
...United Nations will fail if the partition of Palestine is not carried through," Gorge Garcia Granados, U.N. delegate from Guatemala, stated emphatically last night at a meeting of the Harvard and Radcliffe Zionist Societies...