Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ydigoras-one of Central America's stoutest anti-Castro fighters, though weakened by a corrupt and ineffective regime at home. It was, instead, designed to prevent the comeback of a man cordially hated both by Ydigoras and his soldiers: Juan José Arévalo, 58, President of Guatemala from 1945 to 1951, an anti-Yankee (The Shark and the Sardines) leftist who permitted Communists in his government. Living in exile in Mexico City, Arévalo promised to return to Guatemala on March 31, install himself as a presidential candidate in next November's elections. With Ydigoras...
...army curfew was imposed at 8 p.m., and during the night, gunfire rattled through the streets of Guatemala City. By 6 a.m., the army went on the radio with an announcement for Guatemala's 3,800,000 people. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 67, the cagy old soldier who had only a year to go before completing his elected six-year term of office, had been overthrown. In command of a military junta was Defense Minister Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, who was assuming control for the "good of the nation...
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...specifics about such policies were left unexplained. But Kennedy did seem to satisfy the Central American Presidents, some of whom have been for far stronger action against Castro than the U.S. has ever suggested. Said Guatemala's President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. 67, after talking to Kennedy: "This young man seems to know what he wants and where he is going...
...staid old institution that makes money by making money. The oldest and richest of the three U.S. firms that still print bank notes, it is a sort of job-lot treasurer that churns out paper money for 55 nations around the world, including Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt and Guatemala. From its presses last year 25 million stock certificates and 7.5 million bonds, all the travelers' checks for American Express and four other firms, corporate checks for more than 2,000 of the nation's largest firms, and postage stamps for 65 nations...