Word: jacobo
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...Dissolved all the leftist parties that supported the Communist-line administration of ex-President Jacobo Arbenz...
...Reds. What kind of regime would Castillo Armas' be? Since he marched under the banner of antiCommunism, he will doubtless deal sternly with any real Reds or their sympathizers in the overthrown government of former President Jacobo Arbenz-if he can catch them. Of Arbenz and his Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello, Castillo Armas said: "These men are criminals . . . responsible for torturing and killing many people." He froze the assets of the ex-President and 99 of his cohorts, and seized Arbenz' 6,700-acre showplace cotton plantation...
Never in Latin American history had the tradition of diplomatic asylum been so heavily used or so flagrantly abused. With the collapse of Jacobo Arbenz' Communist-manned government, about 900 people fled to nine embassies, taking the time-honored escape route after losing a revolution. Some of the refugees were top officials of the old regime, notably Arbenz himself, most of his Cabinet and a quorum of Congress. Others were panicky henchmen, fearful that they might be held responsible for the last month of Red terror, beatings and killings. In bad conscience, many thought it prudent to take with...
...Doublecross. At the beginning of last week. President Jacobo Arbenz,* who had persisted in typical Communist butchery in his last days in office (see below), had stepped down in favor of Colonel Carlos Enrique Diaz, chief of the armed forces. But Castillo Armas, convinced that Diaz was just a front for Arbenz, had said as much by going on with his war, notably by bombing Guatemala City's Matamoros Fort. Peurifoy agreed heartily with Castillo Armas' action. The ambassador had learned that under a cover of vocal antiCommunism, the doublecrossing Diaz was letting Arbenz' Red advisers...
...there, too, went Jacobo Arbenz-after first forcing the Government Development Bank to extend a second mortgage on his cotton farm for $200,000 payable to his wife. He is also accused of having taken funds from the Treasury. Other government fat cats, who had done their looting earlier, were in the Salvadoran embassy; their six 1954 Cadillacs crowded the ambassadorial courtyard...