Word: mendez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought to the Valley as laborers, until it was found that their inefficiency and subtle sabotage were more costly than regular workers. Since 1949, an average of 700 men have been working on the monument; at one point the number rose to 2.000. To keep everyone happy. Architect Diego Mendez paid them $2 a day, twice as much as they would have earned elsewhere...
Last summer Architect Mendez suddenly became dissatisfied with the facade. In came trucks, drills and cranes, and down came the whole row of archways. Mendez also objected to the four huge lamps in the sanctuary, but when new ones were bought he objected to them too. Last week a new set of lamps was being made, work was still under way on the facade, and there was still only one lonely candidate for burial there, the Caudillo himself...
...Congress, still controlled by Castillo Armas' M.D.N. party, to choose between the two front runners. Unofficial returns gave Rightist General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes 177,198 votes, M.D.N, Candidate Colonel Jose Luis Cruz Salazar, former Ambassador to Washington, 132,087, and the leftist Revolutionary Party candidate, Mario Mendez Montenegro...
...MARIO MENDEZ MONTENEGRO, 47, leader of the liberal Partido Re-voludonario (P.R.) that was outlawed in last October's M.D.N.-sponsored quickie election as too Communist, despite the fact that he once went into exile after plotting against Arbenz. Reinstated by the regime of current Provisional President Guillermo Flores Avendano, Mendez Montenegro calls Communists "my worst enemies...
...votes, Ydigoras can count heavily on Guatemala City and several middle-sized towns. Cruz Salazar has a slight edge with the well-oiled M.D.N., which controls and can deliver the votes of whole plantations, towns and villages. Mendez Montenegro is strapped for campaign funds, but much of the country's working class is behind him. With three strong candidates splitting the electorate, chances were good that none of them could win more than 50% of the vote, as required by the constitution. In such case, the M.D.N.-dominated Congress must choose between the two front-runners-which could lead...