Word: ubico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correctness allowed, to soften the Dictator's vengeance. But during the days of terror which followed the revolt, all El Salvador was sheltering fugitives. Priests lent their robes. Protestant ministers helped. The embassies of Costa Rica, Peru, Guatemala, Spain (and probably others) granted sanctuary. President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala, though a tyrant himself, allowed fugitives to cross his borders, gave them money to get to Mexico. But the U.S. Embassy closed its doors against them...
Guatemala's Dictator Jorge Ubico last week had every reason to be nervous about the unrest in neighboring El Salvador (see col. 1). If El Salvador could defy a tyrant, Guatemalans might try the same thing...
...supporter and confidante to whom Ubico undoubtedly looked for comfort was a remarkable woman named Julita Quiñones. Officially, she is at the head of a Government bureau in charge of meals and supplies for public schools. Actually, she wields power in scale with her bulk (Guatemalans swear that she is 6 ft. 7 in. tall...
...Maciste was the first woman in Guatemala to go into politics. When Ubico was candidate for the Presidency in 1926, she started as his chauffeur, branched out into campaign-managing. Little boys followed her in the street, mocked her great height. She stood it for a while, then began scolding and spanking. So famous became her spankings that Guatemalan mothers still scare their children by threatening to call La Maciste...
Once she spanked one Manuel Cubos Batres, nicknamed "EI Reloj" (The Clock), who was accustomed to demand a minute of silence for any worthy cause. When El Reloj invoked silence against Ubico, La Maciste seized him in a public park, put him over her knees, and shouted, "Now you will cease to be The Clock!" Spanked and shamed, The Clock was silenced forever...