Word: guatemala
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...revolt petered out, rebels bolted like rabbits for Guatemala and Honduras (whose President Tiburcio Carias Andino was reported to have had a hand in the plot). Another rumored instigator, El Salvador's ex-President Osmin Aguirre, who does not like the present Government's more liberal program and federation-with-Guatemala plans, had remained discreetly in the background...
Newly democratic Guatemala's university students went on a long-awaited rampage last week. Fourteen years ago Dictator Jorge Ubico had savagely suppressed their traditional Eastertide "Huelga Estudiantil" (Students' Strike); now at last, in the liberal light of President Juan José Arévalo's regime, it roared its way through the laugh-hungry city. Now there was at least twice the oldtime noise, fun, bawdiness...
...British. Guatemala's new constitution claims Belize (British Honduras). A banner cried: "Principles of the Atlantic Charter: to live without fear, want and Belize...
...Guatemala City's airport, Mr. Stettinius blithely asked for "the President." (Guatemala has no President just now-he fled before a revolution four months ago.) The Secretary did not improve matters by professing not to know that his State Department had just decided to recognize revolutionary Guatemala's hated enemy, Salvadoran Dictator Osmin Aguirre. But Ed Stettinius got what he was after, persuaded Guatemala's Foreign Minister Enrique Muñoz Meany and Finance Minister Gabriel Orellana Hijo to accompany him to Mexico City...
Meanwhile the Salvadoran rebels nursed their wounds. They admired the ideals of their leader, young Doctor Arturo Romero, but regretted his lack of military experience. Dictator Aguirre's threats of "dangerous consequences" to Guatemala for harboring Salvadoran rebels frightened that country's Revolutionary Junta into talking of a Mexican-Guatemalan-Costa Rican alliance against the dictators. The rest of Central America continued to strain and heave...