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Appeal to Bolivar. Guatemala's Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello, showing no such restraint, delivered a fiery counterattack, directly naming the U.S., and made the biggest oratorical hit of the week with conference delegates. Rhetorically demanding: "What is international Communism?" he lashed out at "imperialism" and "foreign monopolies," then called the U.S. program "only a pretext to intervene in our internal affairs." Toriello went on to recall "the Big Stick, the tarnished 'dollar diplomacy' and the landing of the U.S. Marines in Latin American ports" that marked U.S.-Latin American relations in the old days before nonintervention became...
Recourse to Rio. This week, with tension eased by a long weekend adjournment after Toriello's blast, the U.S. put forward its anti-Communist resolution. The resolution provided that the republics agree that "domination or control of the political institutions of any American state by the international Communist movement . . . would constitute a threat . . . and call for appropriate action in accordance with existing treaties." Under the 1947 Rio treaty, the American Foreign Ministers may meet and take action if two-thirds of the members of the Organization of American States decide that the political independence of an American state...
That is a large order, because few Latin American diplomats see the dangers of world Communism. Their inclination is to shrug off Communism as a local problem, and some even sympathize privately with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello's charge that the U.S. is being outrageously interventionist...
After an hour's delay, Toriello made a new decision: "The show must not go on." "Thief!" "Gangster!" yelled the gate-crashers, showering the arena with bottles and refuse. Then, joined by angry ticketholders, they grabbed wooden chairs and seat cushions, and began hurling them into the arena. Breaking down the wooden ringside barrier, they heaped the debris in the arena and set fire to it all. They smashed half the toilets beneath the stands. When it was all over, 23 had been hurt, including eight cops...
...riotous bullring inaugural was not bad enough, Toriello's casino attracted little betting, his dog races were put off because of construction strikes, and his fellow businessmen showed no interest in the fair's industrial pavilions. A big hall labeled "International Exposition" held only four exhibits, one of them Toriello's steel office furniture. And to top it all, the hopefully awaited crowds of U.S. tourists failed to show...