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...transports began landing in Costa Rica to take aboard the Legion's khaki-clad recruits. Once again, the airlift was on; again it bypassed Tacho's wall. This time the recruits and gear were headed for an encampment at Poptum, in the remote Guatemalan province of El Peten. Even though the move was no surprise this time, Tacho could do nothing about it: Arevalo's air force was bigger than...
...first of pirates preying on the Spanish Main, later of rumrunners, sometimes of German submarines. On the swampy, 17 4-mile shore live 63,000 Negroes and Indians, a handful of whites. Back of the capital, greasy rivers reach under forests of cedar, mahogany and chicle-bearing sapodilla to Peten, wildest part of Guatemala...
...been a long time since the British made money on this crown colony. But to Guatemalans British Honduras is important as an outlet for the jungle riches of Peten. Besides, the Guatemalans have a good juridical case for claiming the colony, and the whole business has now become a matter of national pride. Said one British official: "We bloody well ought to let them have it; it would serve them right." That might be the official view, but if it came to a vote most Beliceños would probably stay British...
...Actually, he grants these subjects no rights at all, controls them by arbitrary vagrancy laws, makes them work three weeks a year for the State for nothing. Hundreds of these forced Indian laborers have died on a road which Ubico is pushing through the pestilential jungles of Peten...
Dictator Machado believed that a show of good intentions was at least worth trying. While the Peten was still at sea he suddenly signed orders liberating some 300 political prisoners. At the same time walls and fences broke out in a rash of red-lettered posters: OPPOSE AMERICAN INTERVENTION. To the delight of U. S. correspondents, plans for a magnificent "Red Riot" leaked out three days too soon. According to the scheme Dictator Machado's ever useful Porra (strongarm squad) was to equip a mob of hoodlums with sticks, red flags, Communist banners. Just as the Peten was warping...