Word: gutierrez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asylum. The Arbenz crowd meanwhile, had scuttled to asylum. Many of them found the Mexican embassy, right across the street, the handiest. There went most of the Guatemalan Congress. There went the major Communists: Presidential Adviser Jose Manuel Fortuny, Labor Leader Victor Manuel Gutierrez, Peasant Boss Leonardo Castillo Flores, Editor Alfredo Guerra Borges. There went ex-Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello...
...regime, for the first time, Communist propaganda began to circulate freely in Guatemala. Young Ladino intellectuals-notably such present-day government advisers as Josè Manuel Fortuny, Victor Manuel Gutierrez, Carlos Manuel Pellecer and Alfredo Guerra Borges-soaked up Marxian ideas. U.S.-educated Maria Arbenz became interested, and she and Fortuny guided Arbenz, no heavyweight thinker, to read some popularized explanations of Communist theory...
After three hours of marching, the 15,-ooo paraders massed in front of the National Palace. On the balcony, flanking President Jacobo Arbenz, were the warm-up speakers, Labor Chieftain Victor Manuel Gutierrez and Peasant Boss Leonardo Castillo Flores. both Reds. They plugged solidarity with Viet Minh and similar causes. Arbenz took over from there: ¶On the H-bomb: all the tests must be halted, atomic weapons must be banned. ¶On the recent U.S. note asking a $15 million indemnity to the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. for 233,973 acres of expropriated banana lands: "Blackmail...
...charges "ridiculous and untrue." But State also offered a coolly reasoned explanation of why the white paper had been published at this time. Pointing out that the charge "is perhaps connected . . . with the return from visits to the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain countries of Guatemalan Communists Victor Manuel Gutierrez and Jose Manuel Fortuny," State said: "The United States views the issuance of this false accusation immediately prior to the Tenth Inter-American Conference as a Communist effort to disrupt the work of this conference." In other words, the real plot in the situation was less of a plot than...
Paint on the Curves. The burros and Indians in the town of Tuxtla Gutierrez, where the race started, stared in wonder at the invasion. The palm-fringed streets swarmed with the heterogeneous spawn of the automotive age-sleek Ferraris and squat reef Lancias, souped-up Chryslers and Lincolns and Oldsmobiles, petite Porsches, souped-up Fords. Such blue-chip entries as the Lancias even had their own mobile garage to follow them, a huge trailer complete with machine shop and dormitory...