Word: jacobo
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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...
...Guatemala's anemic anti-Communist opposition still nursed the faint hope that President Jacobo Arbenz might become fed up with his Red allies and disavow them, that hope was blacked out last week by the most forthright pro-Communist declaration the President has ever uttered. In a 2½ hour report to Congress on the state of the nation, Arbenz called the Communists "progressive democratic forces" and "the very wellspring of our regime." He said that to turn against the Reds and repress them, as "certain landowner groups and agents of foreign monopolies" have urged, "would be ... suicide...
...plot, the white paper hinted, had the support of the U.S., Venezuela, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and the U.S. -owned United Fruit Co. Its ob ject: to overthrow the government of President Jacobo Arbenz...
Vital Interests. Through some such concerted program, the State Department still hopes to convince Guatemala's President Jacobo Arbenz of the error of his fellow-traveling ways. But if the situation in Guatemala continues to deteriorate, the ultimate possibility of unilateral U.S. action cannot be ruled out. Said U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy in Guatemala City last week: "Public opinion in the U.S. might force us to take some measures to prevent Guatemala from falling into the lap of international Communism. We cannot permit a Soviet republic to be established between Texas and the Panama Canal." Peurifoy declined...
Within a day, the capital was out of meat and low on gasoline. As though by plan, President Jacobo Arbenz declared an emergency, summoned his Cabinet and seized the road. As trains began to move again, Alfonso Bauer Paiz, who proudly proclaims his hatred of "foreign monopolies," was named government interventor...