Word: guatemala
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...more or less contented plantation of Dictator Somoza, who owns perhaps one-tenth of the country's best farm land. Somoza escaped a Costa Rica-born assassination plot just in time to provide airbases for the planes that won the anti-Communist revolution in Guatemala last June. He stood accused last week of trying to do as much for rebel Costa Ricans...
...Guatemala's deposed President Jacobo Arbenz arrived last week with his family at Zermatt, five miles from Switzerland's Matterhorn, and announced that he was negotiating for recognition of his Swiss citizenship. His father operated a drug-store in the village of Andelfingen until he left for Guatemala in 1899, and was indisputably Swiss. Under the laws of the little democracy, no descendant of a Swiss loses his right to citizenship unless he specifically renounces it - not even foreign Presidents.* Once he gets his Swiss passport, Arbenz will be able to bounce freely around the world, something that...
...February Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat will make an unhurried good-will tour of Central America. Tentative itinerary: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. Milton Eisenhower hopes to accompany the Nixons at least part...
...Although Guatemala's Red-lining ex-President Jacobo Arbenz has never visited Switzerland, many a tie links him to that tight little European democracy. He is of Swiss descent on his father's side and still has relatives there. He chose Swiss banks to hold the plunder, reportedly $6,000,000, that came into his hands while he was President. And it was in Zurich that an Arbenz henchman last year negotiated the purchase of $10 million worth of Communist arms. If the President who almost delivered Guatemala to the Reds now wanted to visit Moscow headquarters...
...President fell from power. "I told him he should shake off his Communist advisers," Ernst recalled. "But either he got annoyed or his Communist friends intercepted the letter, because neither I nor any other member of the family heard from him again." Reflected Uncle Ernst, who once lived in Guatemala: "I remember the boy well. One of the smartest. He could have done great honor to our name if he had only chosen his friends better...