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Then Protestants rubbed Catholic Mexico's sorest spot-history. In newspaper advertisements, they again laid the blame for the French invasion of Mexico (1864) at Church doors. In mid-November Archbishop Martínez pastoral letter blazed at "the perfect organization and powerful financial resources" of Protestant sects. Martinez was further quoted in an interview: "If Catholics believe that a powerful boycott might be one of the effective remedies [for Protestant activity], certainly they should...
...Ubico's downfall reduced the "Dictators' Club" of Central America to half its former membership. Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez of El Salvador fell last May before a popular strike which set the pattern for Guatemala. The two survivors, Dictator Tiburcio Carías of Honduras and Dictator Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, were seriously threatened by the wave of unarmed strikes sweeping Latin America...
Whose Ally? In the official U.S. books the Dictator rates as a sturdy Central American Good Neighbor; he was just ahead of Salvador's fallen Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez in declaring war on Germany after Pearl Harbor. More than 200 Germans, who grew much of Guatemala's coffee, had a big stake in its export trade, have been shipped to the U.S. for internment. German properties have been impounded for the duration. A special tax on enemy business eats up the profits. But most Guatemalans do not take Ubico's anti-German gestures...
...roof of the presidential Palace (with a lot of machine guns) are innumerable bottles of water being turned into "medicine" by the sun. The color of the glass determines the specific purpose. When one of the President's associates falls sick, Martínez prescribes a suitable bottle, and the patient invariably reports a miraculous cure. Such reports persuaded the President to treat his 13-year-old son for acute appendicitis. Operated upon too late, he died...
Last week Dictator Martínez surmounted the worst crisis of his career. His people are cowed again. His official relations with the U.S. are cordial (he judiciously declared war on the Axis the day after Pearl Harbor). Still secure in his fortress-palace, he paces his bedroom through the night while gun crews keep watch on the roof and new-made ghosts glare in through the windows...