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Origins. Born to a lower-middle-class farm family in steaming Escuintla department. Graduated in 1936 from the military academy in Guatemala City, one year after Arbenz...
...Sent before a firing squad with 17 others, he saved himself by feigning death after bullets only nicked his leg. Talked his way into army hospital, after which Arbenz & Co. relented and sent him to prison. Escaped spectacularly to foreign exile by digging a tunnel under the wall of Guatemala City's National Penitentiary. From neighboring Honduras in June 1954 he walked into Guatemala at the head of 400 half-trained volunteers, and, backed up by four vintage fighter planes, defeated or won over the contingents of a 6,000-man regular army that had little stomach for defending...
...this month, President Carlos Castillo Armas will make a state visit to Washington and reap some of the honor due him as the doughty little warrior who kicked a pro-Communist government out of Guatemala. Since that mid-1954 burst of glory, he has managed to survive in the face of drought, plots and a sputtering of accusations (TIME, Aug. 22). But last week, as he made plans to depart, his prestige was dipping. Main reasons: resentment over ham-handed measures by his police, and a hard-to-ignore smell of corruption...
None of the abundant policemen have set to work on the corn and beans deal; instead, a new food scandal broke. Guatemala's established importers of flour charged that Minister of Economy Jorge Arenales had set up a quota system that virtually handed an import monopoly to a group of businessmen represented by his own former law partner. Arenales tried to defend his move as an encouragement for growing and milling wheat locally. But the press was unconvinced. Columnist José Alfredo Palmieri sighed: "Corn, beans, and now flour-the best profits are always made on hunger . . . Food speculation...
...senior writer in the HEMISPHERE section, bilingual Bill Forbis has written cover stories on Haiti (Feb. 22, 1954), Guatemala (June 28. 1954) and Venezuela...