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With some 500,000 Guatemalans voting, Ydigoras piled up a 3-to-1 margin over the government's candidate. Miguel Ortiz Passarelli, in the capital, where poll watchers were numerous. But he was swamped by the rural vote of laborers on government-owned plantations and Indians, who invariably back "el señor gobierno." Beaming Candidate Ortiz promptly tossed himself a champagne victory party...
...Rivers of Blood." Crying fraud, Ydigoras threatened that "rivers of blood would flow" if Ortiz were allowed to take office. That day thousands of people appeared before his headquarters shouting their rage. Said the general: "People of Guatemala! If they give it to the Italian [Italian-descended Ortiz], we shall march!" That evening a temporary coalition of Ydigoras' rightists and non-Communist leftists, needled by a few Reds, and all united only in opposition to the M.D.N., marched into Central Park in downtown , Guatemala City, brushed aside the police and set off the first riot...
...junta that they indeed wanted new elections, which they might well win. Ydigoras also made the pilgrimage to the junta, and with the U.S. air and military attachés sitting in at his request as "foreign observers," he stated his terms: an election recount that would void the Ortiz ballots...
Still young (23), still beautiful, Joanne flew to Switzerland, looking for new faces, new excitement. There she met sleek Bolivian Tin Heir Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, 25, and her mother urged her to marry him. The night before the wedding in Paris, Joanne rebelled, cried: "You pushed me into this!" Mother won out, and the couple were married in her apartment. Patiño gave his bride $250,000 in jewelry to show his affection, but the marriage was brief. After a 49-day honeymoon on Capri, Joanne disappeared, taking her money and jewels. Jaime found...
...parade, the government decided to use force. Castillo Armas' police fired into the marchers, killing four and injuring 27. A 30-day state of siege, clamped on that night, was extended last week for another month. "There are still many persons to arrest," explained Minister of Interior Miguel Ortiz Passarelli...