Word: guatemalan
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...Message to Stanislav. The moon is red." These are the words that came across the air to Guatemala on D-day-plus-one. We all felt as though we were on a sinking ship; Cuba was going to be lost. I, as an American citizen married to a Guatemalan, would have a lot of explaining...
...army of invasion ("No charge." said Alejos. "Just remember me in Havana"). Through Alejos, the CIA also arranged a $1,000,000 hurry-up surfacing of a 5,000-ft. airstrip at Retalhuleu. Starting in September, an airlift of U.S. planes shuttled between recruiting centers in Florida and the Guatemalan camps, bringing in the first of more than 2,000 combat trainees. Later, Alejos helped establish two more camps, one at San Juan Acul, close to the Mexican border, the other at Dos Lagunas in the jungles of northern Guatemala. A heavyset, grey-haired CIA agent known as "Charlie" took...
...Revolutionary Council, only the ambitious Artime agreed with the Pentagon-CIA decision to invade immediately. ("He's my golden boy," a top-level CIA man said.) Artime agreed that something had to be done or morale among the Cubans, chafing under discipline in the Guatemalan camps, would begin to deteriorate. He also agreed that time would only favor Castro, enable him to root his dictatorship even more firmly in Cuban soil. When President Kennedy also agreed on the timing, it was Artime who was permitted to break the news for the new Cuba, while his fellow council members-including...
...notable exception: the late Ernest Bevin, one of whose pithier diplomatic exchanges was recounted in London last week by an old friend. Soon after Bevin took office with the Labor government in 1945, the Guatemalan minister in London asked for an audience. His mission: he wanted Britain to cede neighboring British Honduras to Guatemala. After a long, cool stare at the Guatemalan, Bevin politely asked: "What country do you say you represent?" The minister told him. "How do you spell it?" said Bevin. Irritably, the minister spelled out G-u-a-t-e-m-a-1-a. Again Bevin stared...
Flat Note. How effectively this silence works to Cuba's advantage was pointed up last week by a Guatemalan attempt to rally collective action against Castro. Fortnight ago, with U.S. approval, the Guatemalan government sent a formal note to foreign ministries across the hemisphere urging, in effect, total isolation of Cuba from the rest of the Americas both economically and diplomatically...