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...Fatherland." Peronista propaganda used to intone over and over again. But when the powder smoke cleared last week, there was Perón, holed up in a grubby foreign gunboat, and there was the Fatherland, cheering the man who overthrew him. Rebel hotspurs talked of seizing the fallen strongman and bringing him to trial. But the deep-rooted Latin American tradition of political asylum prevailed, and Juan Perón. gone with the winter, got a safe-conduct for a boat trip into Paraguayan exile...
...personal loan repaid with a check on Comercial Guatemalteca, instead of with Bolanos' personal check? Why did wealthy Businessman Bolanos go to the President for a loan instead of to a bank? And how did Castillo Armas, a man of no conspicuous wealth when he overthrew Communist-coddling President Jacobo Arbenz a year ago, have $25,000 to lend...
GUATEMALA Crime & Punishment In the patio of Guatemala's Central Penitentiary last week, a firing squad carried out the first legal executions since Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas overthrew the Red-ridden government of Jacobo Arbenz in June 1954. The executed men: two former policemen who took part in the murder of ten anti-Communists during the last bloody days of the collapsing Arbenz regime...
...Huerta, 74, onetime revolutionary Mexican political leader, Provisional President of Mexico for seven months in 1920, between the assassination of President Venustiano Carranza and the election of General Alvaro Obregón; of a heart ailment; in Mexico City. An original member of the revolutionary movement which overthrew General Porfirio Diaz in 1911, Huerta at first supported Carranza as leader of the revolution, later shifted his support to Obregón, but broke with him when both became presidential candidates in 1923. After an attempted revolt by his followers was blocked by U.S. intervention in 1924, Huerta fled the country...
Washington was warm during 1917, but things were decidedly hotter in Petrograd. On the night of October 24 Lenin and a well-organized group of Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government and proclaimed themselves the new rulers of Russia. News of the revolt shocked the whole world, but it positively astounded the members of the Russian embassy in Washington. On the next day Karpovich himself decoded a cable from Trotsky, in which the Bolshevik leader said that if the diplomats there would recognize the new regime they might continue to represent Russia, but if not, would they please vacate the embassy...