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...Vice President, Clemente Marroquin Rojas, in his newspaper La Hora. "You may slide downhill." He was addressing General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, 63, Guatemala's headstrong President, who was treating the country to a double dose of wacky crises. Six weeks ago, to protect native Guatemalan shrimp from poaching by foreign trawlers, Ydígoras sent out P-51s on a strafing run that killed three Mexican fishermen (TIME, Jan. 19) and caused a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries. Last week Ydígoras brought on a school strike at home by appointing his cousin...
...Volcanoes Above Us, by Norman Lewis. The unquiet sport of baiting Quiet Americans gains another fictional recruit as Author Lewis uses a Guatemalan setting to deliver a scurrilous poke at Uncle Sam below the banana belt...
...popular favorite was a strange one. An aging survivor of the reactionary 1931-44 Jorge Ubico dictatorship, General Ydigoras, 62, is a hardworking, fluent spellbinder, backed by feudal landlords. Though anticlerical in the past, he casually promised to have a famed Guatemalan priest canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. M.D.N. charged that he also dropped leaflets by airplane on election day announcing that Cruz Salazar had just withdrawn from the race...
...present appears to be some form of Ydigoras-Cruz truce, possibly to give the general the presidency but modify his wilder tendencies and guarantee continued U.S. assistance. The best hope for the future is the precedent of a notably free and orderly election. In mulling over the recent past, Guatemalan moderates could only mourn that Castillo Armas was cut down before he succeeded in easing political restrictions, building up a strong successor and demonstrating the ultimate benefits of his economic alliance with...
...Guatemalan Election...