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...Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, it was pretty much the same old story: in nearly 30 years as a correspondent covering the political turmoil of Latin America, he had been mauled by Peronista hoodlums in Argentina, threatened by Panamanians, and beaten by Communist thugs in Guatemala. Last week he seemed about to be torn to bits by one of Fidel Castro's Havana mobs...
...mechanical majority." As Mexican Delegate Luis Padilla Nervo puts it, "the Latin Americans do not follow instructions from anybody except their own governments." Compared to the Soviet bloc, which votes solid on every question, Latin America is ruggedly independent. In 1957, for example, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and Bolivia disagreed with the U.S. more than half the time...
...Welcomed the state visit of Juan Jose Arevalo, the "spiritual socialist" who let the Communists make nearly fatal inroads during his six years (1945-51) as President of Guatemala...
Over the past five years, Washington's International Cooperation Administration has poured $80 million into Guatemala, built eight agricultural-experiment stations, three agrarian-resettlement projects, miles of roads, including the Atlantic highway. But it has not pleased Clemente Marroquin Rojas, 62, last year's Vice President and now Agriculture Minister. Curmudgeon Marroquin Rojas, terrible-tempered owner-editor-publisher of the daily La Hora, holds nothing sacred. He has attacked his own boss, President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes ("General, watch yourself"), and the Roman Catholic Church ("greedy"). Recently, he took a pitchfork to the ICA. He complained that...
...supported U.S.-Guatemalan Agriculture Service, ended its contract with the Agriculture Department (but did sign a new, smaller cooperation contract with the agrarian institute, a government corporation not under Marroquin Rojas). Under the renegotiated arrangement, the 22 U.S. experts will be trimmed to eight, and the U.S. contribution to Guatemala's farm improvement will drop from $500,000 annually to $300,000. Marroquin Rojas cracked, "What's the crying about?" and told La Hora readers to be sure to read The Ugly American...