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Loyal Soldier. General Andrés Ignacio Menéndez, Provisional President of El Salvador, was doing pretty well. Appointed by the tottering Dictator, Maximiliano Hernández Martinez, Menéndez might have made himself Dictator too. Instead he announced that he would hold the Government in trust for an elected president...
...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...
...Dictator's troubles had only begun. The disciplined people's strike which overthrew El Salvador's Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martinez (TIME, May 29) set a pattern for revolt in Central America. Reports from neighboring countries revealed that plans for a similar campaign in Guatemala were already well advanced. Cleverer than Martinez and no less ruthless, Ubico clearly intended to drown any such movement in blood. In repression, his was a practiced hand...
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...
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez, the Dictator's Minister of War, fell heir to the government, appointed some new Ministers, but had yet to clean out all Martinez' men from Cabinet and lesser posts. He gave general amnesty to all political prisoners, freed the press, agreed to keep power only until elections could be held. Exiles and refugees hoped that the heirs of the Dictator had no dictatorial ideas of their own. They flocked back to El Salvador, determined to give their country a democratic government...