Word: guatemala
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...radical posture, arguing that their proper place in unjust societies is at the forefront of economic and social revolution. Some of them, like militant young priests from Spain exiled to work in the missions, take their anger with them. Some find it in the field: while Maryknoll missionaries in Guatemala, Thomas and Marjorie Melville (a priest and nun who later married) actively aided Castroite guerrillas because they felt the Guatemalan Indians were exploited; they were expelled from the country...
Died. Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, 57, far-leftist President of Guatemala, deposed in 1954 by a U.S.-sponsored exile invasion; by drowning after falling in his bathtub; in Mexico City. Known as "the Red Colonel," Arbenz was elected President in 1950 after the murder of his anti-Communist rival, Francisco Arana; once in office, Arbenz expropriated U.S. property, opened relations with Communist-bloc nations and generally established himself as a thorn in the U.S. side-so much so that in 1954 a CIA-supported force routed Arbenz's forces. The tactic was so successful that some observers...
...everything else. So while he works for the end of the war, for the end of poverty, or for the end of American racism, he knows also that every war is symptomatic of every other war. Viet Nam to Laos and on to Thailand, and across the world to Guatemala, and across all wars to his own heart. What he is finally looking for is not a solution (knowing as he does that human history has not offered solutions). He is really looking for a creation: a new man in a new society...
...White Racism: Galleano (in Guatemala: Occupied Country ) says that most of the guerrillas are Indian. I'd like to think so but it's probably not true. Alfonso Bauer Paiz says 30 per cent. About 60 per cent of the population is Indian, and almost all the peasants are Indian. I am sorry to find that most Guatemalan students (who are all white) are quite racist-even some of the big anti-imperialists. Even though two of the three guerrilla leaders were Indians (the late Yon Sosa and Turicos...
What does the "left terror" consist of They have kidnapped rich business man, killed some MLN politicians associated with MANO, killed two ambassadors (one, the above-mentioned Mein), machine gunned the U.S. military team chief Col. Weber (right after MANO had killed Miss Guatemala because she was a guerrilla's girl friend), bombed jeeps, bombed some American restaurants like "The Hawaii" and "The American Donut Shop," bombed the newspaper Presna Libre (Free Press), bombed Castillo Armas' tomb and tear gassed the Peace Corps offices. Now, I will not argue that this is just a "tactical question." Violence which strikes innocents...