Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with the growing threat of Communist power in Guatemala, the hemisphere's 20 other nations agreed last week that a consultative meeting of the Organization of American States is now essential...
...most notable convert to the idea of holding such a meeting was Mexico, whose complacent view of Guatemala as a little country going through a period of revolutionary reform was abruptly upset last month when her southern neighbor received 2,000 tons of Communist arms and ammunition. A formal call for the conference, to meet around July 1, probably in Montevideo, is expected this week...
...will offer the conference a concrete plan for resisting the extension of Red influence in or from Guatemala...
Main points: 1) interception and confiscation of any further arms shipments from Communist sources to Guatemala;-2) a five-nation watchdog commission to enforce the arms quarantine and to keep an eye on Guatemalan infiltration among its neighbors; and 3) no action for the present on economic sanctions that might bring hardship to Guatemala's people...
...needed two-thirds (14) vote for this program, Guatemala's stubborn President Jacobo Arbenz will have to make a serious decision: either to control his rampant Red comrades or take the risk of some future-and perhaps far heavier-demonstration of his neighbors' disapproval...