Word: orellana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. General Lazaro Chacon, 56, President of Guatemala who, stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage, resigned last December (TIME, Dec. 29); after a paralytic stroke; in New Orleans, La. He became Provisional President in 1926, following the death of President Jose Maria Orellana, was soon elected for a full six-year term. Quiet, businesslike, he governed ably, suspended the Constitution once, kept Guatemala's perennial rebels in check until his physical breakdown. Four Presidents have followed: Dr. Baudilio Palma, General Manuel Orellana. Dr. Jose Maria Reina Andrade, General Jorge Ubico...
This could best be done by forcing the successful revolutionist, General Manuel Orellana, to resign as president of Guatemala. The joke of the whole business was of course not that Revolutionist Orellana had seized the presidency but that he had seized it from one Baudilio Palma who obtained it the week before from original President Lazaro Chacon. The joke which Washington wanted uncracked was that Washington had recognized the second of Guatemala's three successive presidents...
...Palma "wishing the Acting President success in his office," thus giving him diplomatic recognition. The only trouble was that Acting President Palma was not at all acceptable to the Guatemalan Army and a considerable section of the populace. Day after his recognition by the U. S., a General Manuel Orellana rushed with troops out of Fort Matamoras where he was commandant, booted out Acting President Palma, took the office himself. A half-hour's gun play left 57 persons killed or wounded. During the ruction somebody killed Gen eral Mauro de Leon, who as No. 1 Designate, should have...