Word: guatemalan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in three years, the Communist-infiltrated Guatemalan government backpedaled sharply on its Red line. Its leaders apparently realized that their stunt of importing a huge shipment of weapons from behind the Iron Curtain had not only angered the U.S. but had also stirred up the neighbors. One afternoon last week, a grey C-47 buzzed low over Guatemala City, showering leaflets which called on all true patriots to rise and fight for Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, exiled anti-Communist army leader now plotting a comeback from Honduras. In Honduras and in Nicaragua, U.S. Air Force Globemasters...
...idlers. Day after day, on cars of the U.S.-owned International Railways of Central America, the crates rolled up to the capital, 197 miles away. Armed guards rode each car. One night a stick of dynamite exploded without serious damage under an arms train, presumably set by anti-Communist Guatemalan exiles who had come over the Honduras border, 15 miles away. Tracing the fuse, soldiers wound up in a gunfight. One sergeant and one saboteur were killed...
...hand of Honduras' neighbor, Communist-infiltrated Guatemala, showing in the strike? Said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Washington last week: "There is at least an interesting coincidence in the fact that the strikes have occurred principally in an area to which the Guatemalan government recently sent three consuls who have subsequently been declared persona non grata by the government of Honduras because of their activities...
...Guatemalan Communists, in recent years, have roughed up United Fruit with labor demands and land expropriation, and have exacted such labor concessions as pay for unworked Sundays, improved housing, free medical care, severance pay and paid vacations. None of these provisions are yet in force in Honduras, although United Fruit workers are the highest paid in the country. The difference gave Guatemalan Reds fuel for propaganda denouncing United Fruit and "im-perialismo Yanqui." The result was the current strike...
...figure 32, which stung President Arbenz, is currently marked on pavements, tires, lunch pails and even the presidential residence in Guatemala City. As every Guatemalan knows, it is the number of the article of the country's constitution that bans "political parties of an international or foreign character." If Arbenz conscientiously enforced Article 32, life would be harder for Guatemala's Communists. There is no sign that he intends to do anything of the sort...