Word: jacobo
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...inevitably produced a couple of police chiefs who could have come right out of an Arthur Koestler novel. To Colonels Rogelio Cruz Wer and Jaime Rosenberg fell the duty of directing the final, senseless reign of terror when the anti-Communist revolution last June was toppling their boss, President Jacobo Arbenz. Upon Arbenz' fall, Cruz Wer and Rosenberg escaped in a station wagon to Mexico, first of the regime's big shots to run for safety...
Apologizing that he could "not speak English very good," Castillo Armas told simply and eloquently how Moscow-directed Communists emerged with power and influence under his predecessor, Jacobo Arbenz."The Communists concentrated first on the labor unions, of which they quickly gained complete control, "he explained. "Soon it became almost impossible to be elected to public office without the support of the unions . . . A teachers' union was formed, and before long almost every teacher in the country, in order to hold his job, had to teach the Communist doctrines . . . The Communists had political control of Guatemala by the time...
President Carlos Castillo Armas last week called on Guatemalans to go to the polls Oct. 10 and decide whether or not he should remain in power. The election call came astonishingly soon after the President's June coup against the pro-Red regime of Jacobo Arbenz. But the terms of Castillo Armas' decrees made the election practically defeat-proof...
...right of diplomatic asylum, almost a sacred thing to Latin Americans, prevailed last week for Guatemala's deposed pro-Communist President Jacobo Arbenz; armed with a safe-conduct from new President Carlos Castillo Armas, he flew off to Mexico. With him into exile went the Communist main cogs of his government and others of the goo-odd asylum seekers who had turned Guatemala City's foreign embassies into crowded madhouses for 2½ months. These and earlier departures brought the greatest mass dash for diplomatic refuge in Latin America's history close...
...last, desperate days of his government, President Jacobo Arbenz summoned Finance Minister Raúl Sierra Franco to the presidential offices and told him: "I must have 2,000,000 quetzales* right away; a friendly government has agreed to sell us fighter planes for cash." Sierra Franco, a dutiful and upright functionary, replied that there was probably only a million in cash available, but offered to get that...