Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist-led banana-worker unions demanded that United Fruit, already paying minimum wages three times greater than top wages on Guatemalan-owned farms, jack up wage floors from $1.36 daily...
What was it all about? The Reds who have bored into Guatemalan labor were boldly forcing a quick showdown with the country's new President Jacobo Arbenz. Only seven weeks ago, Colonel Arbenz took over from "Spiritual Socialist" Juan José Arévalo, who for six years had run the hemisphere's most left-wing regime...
...civilians, start them shooting, then take over the presidency for the civilian plotters. But somebody talked, and Gálvez quietly squelched the plan without a bullet being fired or a viva sounded. Velasco and four confederates were sent to jail, while two others fled for asylum to the Guatemalan embassy...
...once said, "but we won't go very far wrong, either." He has been getting along well with his neighbors in Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, but Tegucigalpa buzzed this week with outspoken if undocumented suspicions that Guatemala might have financed the recent mischiefmaking. Last week, when the Guatemalan embassy requested safe conduct out of the country for the two Hondurans implicated in the plot, Gálvez smiled sweetly and answered: "Just be patient; meantime, give them soft beds and good food...
Less than half an hour after the start a Guatemalan, burning up the road in a new Lincoln, missed a turn and was hauled out, fatally injured, from the smoking wreck. The Cadillac Coche México, hightailing southward from Ciudad Juarez at better than 100 m.p.h., screeched off a hairpin curve, rolled over three times into a rocky ditch. The drivers, unhurt, crawled back, started the engine, and somehow finished the day's lap-in 69th place. In his 1950 Cadillac, ex-Pilot William Sterling of El Paso paced the pack over the first 228 miles...