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...SWISS SKY RIDE charges a big 75$ for a four-minute cable-car trip but sends the traveler soaring 115 ft. above Samoan fire dancers, Burundi drummers, Guatemalan marimba bands and Swiss yodelers...
...SWISS SKY RIDE charges a big 75? for a four-minute cable-car trip but sends the traveler soaring 115 ft. above Samoan fire dancers, Burundi drummers, Guatemalan marimba bands and Swiss yodelers...
Mention Arevalo to a Guatemalan peasant (or to almost any Latin American peasant), and he will chatter excitedly, full of enthusiasm. A former professor of philosophy, Arevalo returned to Guatemala in 1944 when the brutal dictator Jorge Ubico was overthrown; braced by his proclaimed policy of "spiritual socialism," he was a natural choice to lead his country. Guatemalans remember Arevalo's presidency for land reforms and the organization of labor...
...print. Yet some passages suffer from an almost-doctrinaire leftist approach. This orientation leads to simplifications which are, at the very least, unrealistic. For example, in his discussion of American involvement in the the invasion of Guatemala in 1954, Shapiro calls the overthrown Arbenz regime the best one the Guatemalan peasants had ever seen; he ignores almost entirely the torture and terror that, as other studies have revealed, stemmed from the growing Com- munist influence over Arbenz. Perhaps the most unfortunate simplification is Shapiro's title--the "invisible" Latin America which lies "behind the facade known to tourists...
...President Jacobo Arbenz as the front man, had taken over Guatemala. The State Department began its strategy-to isolate the country under the Rio Treaty. But at the same time the Central Intelligence Agency plunged ahead with a plot to back an armed assault on Arbenz' gang by Guatemalan exiles from neighboring Honduras and Nicaragua. Mann was summoned from Athens for a consultation, heard both plans, favored the CIA. "I was an activist in that case," he recalls. A short time later, the U.S.-backed exiles stormed into Guatemala City, ousted Arbenz...