Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Subcommittee on Communist Aggression in Latin America, sitting in Washington last week, heard a chilling story from a witness who knew what he was talking about. The witness was Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas, who toppled his country's Red-controlled regime in June. His testimony, played back from a wire recording made in Guatemala City, was the first that a committee of Congress ever took from a foreign chief of state...
HILARY E. ARATHOON Guatemala City, Guatemala...
...each modest success on Dulles' list, there were two or more major frustrations or setbacks; every Guatemala was more than offset by a Geneva. In each instance the small advances had been made when free men stood boldly together against Communism; the backward steps were invariably the result of division and fear in the free world-attitudes that the Communists never fail to exploit. Among the points of frustration on Dulles' list...
...right of diplomatic asylum, almost a sacred thing to Latin Americans, prevailed last week for Guatemala's deposed pro-Communist President Jacobo Arbenz; armed with a safe-conduct from new President Carlos Castillo Armas, he flew off to Mexico. With him into exile went the Communist main cogs of his government and others of the goo-odd asylum seekers who had turned Guatemala City's foreign embassies into crowded madhouses for 2½ months. These and earlier departures brought the greatest mass dash for diplomatic refuge in Latin America's history close...
...cronies, he took off into the night sky. It was still dark when he landed in Mexico City, the most important refugee to reach there since Leon Trotsky in 1937. His only greeter, aside from reporters and plainclothesmen, was Mexico's leftist Senator Luis Rodriguez, onetime Ambassador to Guatemala...