Word: guatemalan
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...College at Cambridge. As a writer, he has turned out seven novels, ranging from biting political satires to surrealistic folklore, and been translated into 36 languages. Last year his leftist writings and political novels won him the $28,000 Lenin Peace Prize for exposing "American intervention against the Guatemalan people." Last week his whole body of work won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, carrying with it a $60,000 cash award...
...took up swimming and broke several Pacific Coast free-style records. An English major, he dropped out for a year to try his hand at short-story writing, then returned to Stanford and switched to psychology. Before he garnered his degree he garnered a wife, a petite, dark-eyed Guatemalan girl named Aida Marroquin. When they first met, she knew practically no English and he could say nothing in Spanish but the Gettysburg Address, which he had learned in a class. They corresponded for two years while she was back in Guatemala-and he was improving his Spanish-and then...
...long as possible to attain independence in the end. Peter Weiner's article called "Guatemala: the Aborted Revolution" is distressing because it places most of the blame for the failure of that revolution on the United States. If American aid is so important for the success of a Guatemalan revolution, then these people will not become independent. Aid means future obligations...
...Guatemala, Manuel Orellana Portillo, a former president of the Guatemalan Congress, was stopped in his auto near the town of La Fragua, 55 miles from the capital, and shot by Communist terrorists as "an enemy of the people." Such killings are the trademark of Luis Turcios Lima, 24, a former Guatemalan army officer who leads a daring band of 250 terrorists. Though President Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro has offered the guerrillas an amnesty ever since he took over last May from the military regime of Colonel Enrique Peralta, they refused to lay down their arms...
...itchy military, Guatemala is also plagued by a stagnant economy and mounting extremist agitation from both right-wing and Communist terrorists. Though Méndez was not talking specific solutions or programs last week, he was confident in the knowledge that he had fully 30 of the new Guatemalan Congress' 55 members on his side, and-for the time being at least-ex-Strongman Peralta...