Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberation era" of Carlos Castillo Armas, the rebel colonel who threw a pro-Communist regime out of power in 1954 only to die of an assassin's bullet last July, came crashing to an end in Guatemala last week. An election staged by Castillo's successors to keep the liberator's Nationalist Democratic Movement (M.D.N.) in office turned out to have been so patently rigged that not even the government tried to uphold it. Harnessing popular anger over the fraud, the opposition candidate, General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 62, made a tumultuous bid to take power...
...Rivers of Blood." Crying fraud, Ydigoras threatened that "rivers of blood would flow" if Ortiz were allowed to take office. That day thousands of people appeared before his headquarters shouting their rage. Said the general: "People of Guatemala! If they give it to the Italian [Italian-descended Ortiz], we shall march!" That evening a temporary coalition of Ydigoras' rightists and non-Communist leftists, needled by a few Reds, and all united only in opposition to the M.D.N., marched into Central Park in downtown , Guatemala City, brushed aside the police and set off the first riot...
...Turkish troops have apparently been given a slogan, 'To Aleppo!', which they now publicly repeat." Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko delightedly expanded the charge: "Apparently," said he, "the intention of the U.S.A. is to employ in Syria the method it resorted to in suppressing the independence of Guatemala." U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge promptly welcomed "an opportunity for a full airing of the Soviet allegations," and debate was scheduled for this week by an almost unanimous vote of the General Assembly...
...Guatemala & Suez. The need for such protection was plainly spelled out by Banker Abs. Said he: "The statistics show that private investors in capital-exporting countries preferably invest in areas where they find preconditions legally and psychologically favorable . . . Examples of violations of private foreign rights, both in highly developed and less developed countries, are known to us all. Among the more recent are the methods applied in nationalizing properties of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., in expropriating the United Fruit Co. properties by Guatemala, and finally in expropriating the Suez Canal." Abs also cited instances of indirect interferences with...
...Pittsburgh's exclusive Duquesne Club, where he recently rebuilt an elevator to take him directly to his fifth-floor suite, he keeps tab on every well. Besides Ohio, Wyoming and Texas, Benedum's wildcatters are exploring 750,000 acres in Colombia, also have 450,000 acres in Guatemala, and are dickering with a French oil company to help develop 3,000,000 acres along Africa's Ivory Coast. Says old Mike: "There's no country in the world of any magnitude that does not have some oil. We have only begun to find the oil that...