Word: tegucigalpa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tegucigalpa, Honduras
...cobblestone capital of Tegucigalpa this week, military officers shouldered aside Supreme Chief of State Julio Lozano Diaz. The framed election, which Lozano staged to transform himself into a legal President (TIME, Oct. 22), proved too raw for Honduras' younger, U.S.-trained officers to choke down. All last week Colonel Hector Caraccioli, 34, a U.S.-trained pilot who commands the air force, and Major Roberto Galvez, 31, an engineering officer who studied at Louisiana State University, talked it over with aging (71) Don Julio. Then, lining up support from General Roque J. Rodriguez, 55, commander of the country...
...truck and a jeep full of pith-helmeted cops armed with rifles and Sten guns rolled up to Tegucigalpa's central Prado Hotel on election day last week and glowered at a jeering crowd of demonstrators from the Liberal Party, main opposition to the government of Chief of State Julio Lozano. From behind, some barefoot kids stole up and pelted the policemen with banana and orange peels. Furious, the squad's commander pulled out a pistol and fired into the crowd. A woman screamed. The rest of the cops opened up, mostly firing wild. One man was killed...
Still an incessant traveler, Scott spends four months a year abroad, talking to political, military, educational and religious leaders and just plain men in the streets of such places as Tegucigalpa, Vienna, Algiers, Kandy and Vizagapatnam. Last year he toured Latin America ; now he is just returned from 100 days in the Middle East and India. His purpose is to see, hear and feel the sights, sounds and attitudes of lands currently in the news, the better to sound-track TIME'S unique journalism for discussion groups and organizational meetings...
...June 28). At the time the revolt began. TIME Bureau Chief Bob Lubar was on his way to Honduras from Mexico City to cover the rebel forces, and three part-time correspondents had been alerted to help cover the Arbenz story: Robert Clark in San Salvador, Nick Agurcia in Tegucigalpa, and Henry Wallace from Havana, who was in Honduras reporting the United Fruit Co. strike...