Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurried up to greet the Castillo Armases like the friends they have been since the Nixons' Caribbean tour last February. "Again!" shouted the photographers over and over. "It's an old American custom," Nixon explained. "I know," replied Castillo Armas. "They do the same thing in Guatemala...
...guard, the visitors rode to the President's Guest House, where they were quartered while in Washington. On Constitution Avenue, banners flapped gaily− except for the half-masted flag of South Carolina. Thus did his home state honor the late Jack Peurifoy, pistol-packing U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala who helped negotiate the cease-fire between anti-Communist Revolutionary Castillo Armas and the pro-Red forces he defeated in June...
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...
...Sent before a firing squad with 17 others, he saved himself by feigning death after bullets only nicked his leg. Talked his way into army hospital, after which Arbenz & Co. relented and sent him to prison. Escaped spectacularly to foreign exile by digging a tunnel under the wall of Guatemala City's National Penitentiary. From neighboring Honduras in June 1954 he walked into Guatemala at the head of 400 half-trained volunteers, and, backed up by four vintage fighter planes, defeated or won over the contingents of a 6,000-man regular army that had little stomach for defending...
...business depression, unemployment, droughts, a spate of charges that insiders (though not the President himself) are profiteering from government contracts and speculation in foodstuffs. Complains of the "no-idea" men around him, but has been slow to exercise firm leadership. As a result, has failed so far to make Guatemala the hoped-for showplace of anti-Communist prosperity-but $15 million granted last week by the U.S. International Cooperation Administration (mostly for job-making road construction) will help...