Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the U.S. views Communism in Guatemala as a menace to hemisphere security, it wants the 21 American republics to take joint action against this danger at the Inter-American Conference in Caracas next March. But the U.S. is running into trouble trying to get the Latin Americans to agree to anything like a strong line against Guatemala's fellow-traveling government. It is even having difficulty finding a suitable neighbor to take the lead in presenting the case under the 1947 Rio pact provision for joint measures against "an aggression which is not an armed attack...
...dangers of world Communism as people in the U.S.; in fact, a large body of non-Communist leftist opinion holds that the U.S. is too upset about the Reds and not bothered enough about right-wing dictatorships. Latin America's powerful nationalist sentiment, moreover, tends ,to sympathize with Guatemala's Red-led harassment of U.S. companies...
...which scares the Latinos more than Communism -even after a generation of U.S. good will, loans and trade agreements. Said a pro-U.S. South American President: "Nonintervention is essential to continental solidarity." The intervention of Moscow-controlled Communism apparently does not bother them yet. Even such neighbors of Guatemala as El Salvador and Honduras, while turning up evidences of Communist infiltration, are reluctant to step forward with accusations...
...Boston last week, company officials maintained official silence. Though armed with a working contract running till 1988, they had agreed to revisions when Figueres held office the first time in 1948. When measured against the slam-bang attitude of Guatemala's Red-led land reformers, the Figueres approach practically reeked of sweet reasonableness. But the fact remained that any new deal in Costa Rica would surely set the pattern for future negotiations over Unifruit's important holdings in Honduras and Panama...
Elsewhere, municipal elections also registered rising popular strength for the Reds. Until recently, Guatemala had only 536 people as card-carrying Communists; the Reds were content to win their political victories by infiltrating other parties of the government coalition, which is consistently proCommunist. For last week's elections, the Red party offered candidates in four towns, thus opposing various combinations of other coalition parties, and the anti-Communist opponents of the government as well. Running under their own colors, the Reds won three towns...