Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soon he was rich enough to invite Costa Rica's leading Communist to dinner at a luxurious villa and well enough briefed to discuss Marxist ideas with his guest. If Arbenz had been a widely traveled or broadly educated man, he might have been more skeptical, but in Guatemala there were actually rigid social stratifications and reactionary landlords, just as the books said. At some point his tidy, army-trained mind closed around the rudimentary theory and snapped shut with an approving click. He made no attempt to delve deeper, but took to reading La Union Sovietica. He once...
...Chief of the Armed Forces, Arana shared authority over the army with Defense Minister Arbenz. Feeling ran high; once the two men, both drunk, faced each other in Guatemala City's Palace Hotel bar with hot words and drawn .455, and only a friend's intervention prevented gunfire. Affable, conservative Arana stood well with the army, and was in the lead for the presidency, when in July 1949 he was decoyed into making an inspection trip that took his Mercury station wagon over a little arched bridge near Lake Ama-titlán. There he and his aide...
...Inside Guatemala, tension rose to the boil. Labor and peasants presented with farms of their own under the land-reform program pledged loyalty to Arbenz and the Communists; the remote Indians, as ever, were mute and apart. But in the capital, which had elected an anti-Communist mayor in 1951, the government discovered "plot" after "plot"-and across the border in Honduras, Castillo Armas was almost ready...
Friendly Veto. To many laymen the clash in Guatemala seemed a civil conflict with some international overtones; the original staging area was certainly Honduras, and the first planes came from somewhere outside Guatemala. In the council, what it was became a legal question. Brazil and Colombia, terming it a "dispute," proposed to turn its solution over to the U.N.'s regional organization, the OAS. Guatemala, which had seen the OAS vote 17-1 against it at Caracas, howled no.. The issue, it cried, was "criminal aggression," initiated by the United Fruit Co. and "fomented by the State Department...
stay out of this hemisphere and don't try to start your plans and your conspiracies over here." The galleries cheered. When the other ten members voted for the Brazil-Colombia proposal, Tsarapkin cast the U.S.S.R.'s 60th Security Council veto - another shock to Guatemala's apologists in Latin America. The council agreed only on a call for the "immediate termination of any action likely to cause bloodshed." That bound no one, least of all the enemies maneuvering for good bloodshedding positions in Guatemala...