Word: paniagua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot, whether real or fancied, was convenient, and it roused the regime's supporters to demands for action. The Communist chief of the peasants' union called on his followers to be ready to join a rural militia to shoot antiCommunists. And Communist Congressman César Montenegro Paniagua proclaimed that Guatemala would never need concentration camps. If the opposition should rise, he explained, "we will cut off the heads of all anti-Communists...
While Paco thus provided a glimpse of Red penetration, Cesar Montenegro Paniagua, one of the four Communist deputies, showed Red power. When the workers of the U.S.-owned International Railways of Central America met to consider a strike vote, their own union president took a back seat and Paniagua took charge. Under his deft prodding, the union enthusiastically voted to strike. At 9 o'clock one night last week, engineers tooted the whistles of the 14 locomotives in the Guatemala City yards, and the strike...