Word: guatemala
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...friends in the hemisphere and provoke a Cold War crisis with Russia. But Nixon has also said that we should "quarantine" Castro politically and economically, which would be a violation of the same treaties he accused Kennedy of proposing to violate. Moreover, Nixon's comparison of Cuba with Guatemala is sinister indeed, since everybody, including Nixon, knows that what the Eisenhower administration did in Guatemala is exactly the same kind of action Kennedy appeared to advocate recently...
...modern history has there been a dictator who did not claim to represent the will of the people." committees of foreign ministers filled offstage workrooms of the rococo National Theater to write the final resolution. The initial division was between two groups. One group-including Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, El Salvador and Colombia-was willing to go along with the U.S. in a specific denunciation of Russian and Communist Chinese intervention and of Cuba for inviting it. Other foreign ministers-from Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Honduras and Ecuador-were moved by their own leftism, by fear...
...Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Guatemala have forced out Cuban envoys or broken off diplomatic relations. Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo warned that he would break relations "with any state which tries to utilize diplomatic privileges to inflict damages on us." Peru summoned the OAS to consider Red infiltration into the Hemisphere (see The Americas...
...facing the invading forces of U.S.-backed Rebel Carlos Castillo Armas, Arbenz abandoned the presidency to make a panicky dash for safety in the Mexican embassy. He thereby won the scorn of a militant young Argentine leftist then temporarily living in Guatemala-Ernesto ("Che") Guevara. Said Che, who is now Castro's one-man brain trust: "If Jacobo Arbenz had been a man, he would have taken himself to the streets and fought...
...possible spearhead for spreading Castro's influence to Guatemala, Arbenz is likely to prove of small value. Guatemala's leftists tend to consider him a quitter and a has-been. Instead, Arbenz will continue the role of propaganda showpiece that he began last week before the cameras of Havana's Televisión-Revolución. "Latin America was jolted by the intervention of North American imperialism in Guatemala," he said. "The Guatemalan situation will not be repeated in Cuba. When a people is so united and determined to win, when it has leaders so self-denying...