Word: maruca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaning heavily on his spirited and strongly Marxist wife Maria Cristina (nicknamed "Maruca"), Arbenz left Mexico, alighted briefly in France and in Switzerland, where $2,000,000 of Guatemalan government money reportedly waited in a numbered bank account. Then he settled in Prague. In 1956 he visited Moscow for several months, but the Russians sized him up as a lightweight, Marxist-wise. Leaving his two daughters in a Russian boarding school, he headed back to the Western Hemisphere, landing in Montevideo in May 1957. Politically, he observed the rules of asylum by masking his Communist contacts as Russian language lessons...