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...little Central American countries, El Salvador and Guatemala, struggled in freedom's toils last week. Both had recently overthrown tyrants. Both had discovered that the seeds of tyranny did not vanish with the tyrants...
Loyal Soldier. General Andrés Ignacio Menéndez, Provisional President of El Salvador, was doing pretty well. Appointed by the tottering Dictator, Maximiliano Hernández Martinez, Menéndez might have made himself Dictator too. Instead he announced that he would hold the Government in trust for an elected president...
...Ubico's downfall reduced the "Dictators' Club" of Central America to half its former membership. Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez of El Salvador fell last May before a popular strike which set the pattern for Guatemala. The two survivors, Dictator Tiburcio Carías of Honduras and Dictator Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, were seriously threatened by the wave of unarmed strikes sweeping Latin America...
...elected President of Honduras in 1932, twice extended his term without elections. Several times he put down revolts, left his prisons full of political enemies in spite of petitions from other Latin countries. Now he faced a growing storm of popular rebellion. Across the border of newly freed El Salvador, Honduran exiles were eagerly crowding, filling the free Salvadoran press with at tacks upon...
...Dictator's troubles had only begun. The disciplined people's strike which overthrew El Salvador's Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martinez (TIME, May 29) set a pattern for revolt in Central America. Reports from neighboring countries revealed that plans for a similar campaign in Guatemala were already well advanced. Cleverer than Martinez and no less ruthless, Ubico clearly intended to drown any such movement in blood. In repression, his was a practiced hand...