Word: guatemala
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...They had little if anything to say about the American coup in Guatemala, the CIA's intervention in Iran, its role in the creation of Diem, or the American support of Trujillo; but they regarded communist "colonialism" with horror. The plight of the communist satellites wrung their hearts; that of South Korea and South Vietnam left them unmoved. They denounced racism in the Soviet Union while ignoring it in South Africa and the United States until it was no longer possible to ignore it.... It was possible that they had so completely assimilated the official point of view that they...
CARLOS R. WEISSENBERG Guatemala City, Guatemala...
...moment, however, the main effect of Castro's trip has been to accentuate the political polarization in the region. Cuba is still considered a menace by many Latin American governments, notably Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Guatemala. They take his Chilean junket as the signal for a general broadening of a Communist wedge in Latin America...
...Real Man. In naming the world-renowned Chilean poet, Communist and ambassador to France, the academy picked another controversial figure. He is only the third Latin American to be given the coveted prize-following his high school teacher, Chile's Gabriela Mistral (1945), and Guatemala's Miguel Angel Asturias (1967). Some feel that his immense output-by his own estimate, some 7,000 pages of poetry-is occasionally marred by obscurantisn and Marxist propaganda. But Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed during the Spanish Civil War, praised Neruda as "a real man who knows that...
...failure to warn of the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961 or Khruschchev's fall from power in 1964. In some cases, the agency was plagued by the ever-present problem of drawing the line between operations and intelligence; the line became unrecognizably blurred in places like Laos and Guatemala...