Word: junta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Americans know even less about Argentina's government. They know little beyond the fact that it consists of a junta of military men whose bristling nationalism and thorny relations with the U.S. State Department have caused it to be known vaguely as fascist. The answers to two questions which might clarify the situation are obscured by the fogs of Argentine and Hemisphere politics: 1) In Argentina's ruling junta who is the strong man? 2) Is Argentina a Good Neighbor...
...Scouts, students, a uniformed midget and a legless man directed traffic in Guatemala City, which three weeks ago was the most heavily policed community in the Hemisphere. The Revolutionary Junta (Captain Jacobo Arbenz, Jorge Toriello, Major Francisco Xavier Arana) surveyed the smoking ruins of San José Fortress, whose guns had so often fired on the people of Guatemala, decided to make the place a children's park. Fifteen more generals fled to Mexico...
...international recognition had not yet come. The State Department studied the new Government with field glasses. Said the Junta in a statement: "We are not seeking recognition, since we think it will come naturally because of our pro-democratic ideals...
Unsmiling General. When Guatemala's hated Dictator Jorge Ubico resigned the presidency, he delegated power to a junta of three generals. The leader, hard and unsmiling Federico Ponce, promptly convoked Ubico's hand-picked Congress, over awed it by stationing troops at the doors. Obediently, the deputies elected him Provisional President. Five young lawyers who protested were slapped into jail. Ponce's government won astonishingly prompt U.S. approval...
Before leaving Guatemala for Mexico City, Ubico delegated his power to a military junta. But the people wanted real self-government; they had at least a chance to start their climb toward democracy...