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Security Council to the U.S. position on Guatemala (see HEMISPHERE) On this point, Dulles won a little victory: Eden graciously agreed that henceforth Britain would abstain rather than vote against the U.S. on the Guatemala issue...
Arbenz is out. This week Guatemala, after four years of skidding toward the Soviet orbit and ten days of bombing and strafing by anti-Communist rebel invaders, found its President's Marxism and his Communist kibitzers too much. Top army officers forced him to quit, and took power with a junta of three colonels...
...rest white. Nearly two-thirds are illiterate, and more than half of the illiterates do not even speak Spanish, using Indian dialects instead; 64% go barefoot. Nominally Roman Catholic, the Indians celebrate Christian festivals with pagan gusto, consult witch doctors oftener than the country's scant 200 priests. Guatemala City, the capital, is the only sizable city, with 293,000 residents; Quezaltenango, runner...
History. In Christ's time, Mayan Indians, history's most brilliant aborigines, created in Guatemala a culture that included sculpture, arithmetic, writing and trade (in textiles and featherwork) over a net of fine roads-though they had neither domestic animals nor the wheel. But earthquakes, plagues and tribal wars so weakened them that in 1523-26 Spanish Captain Pedro de Alvarado's 120 horsemen and 500 foot soldiers were able to subjugate 2,000,000 Indians. Spain made Guatemala the viceregal capital of Central America, and enslaved the Indians as plantation labor; an Indian caught riding...
Economy. Though legendarily a "banana republic," Guatemala actually grows six times as much coffee ($70 million worth a year) as bananas ($12 million yearly). Other exports: chicle, mahogany, essential oils. The U.S. buys 76% of Guatemala's products, sells Guatemala 64% of all that she buys. By paying high prices for coffee, the U.S. helps Guatemala keep the currency at par with the dollar, and the government budget healthy. Communist agitation has ruined a flourishing tourist trade once worth $2,500,000 a year...