Word: ubico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife and mother in her youth, Cousin Julia switched to male attire and a career as a political goon for Dictator Jorge Ubico (1931-44). To terrorize the opposition, she backed her broad fist with a muscled 240 Lbs. on a 6-ft. frame. In 1957, when Ydígoras made his turbulent campaign for the presidency, Cousin Julia led his street-demonstration gangs. With his victory, she hit the big time. In dinner jacket, she turned up at diplomatic functions with her attractive, fur-clad roommate, Carmen Gandara, 26. Julia first got a job bossing all public purchases, then...
Behind the smile, Ydigoras was very much in earnest. A onetime follower of Dictator Jorge Ubico (1931-44), Ydigoras had fought two elections in the past four months. When he ran behind in the first, his followers cried fraud, rioted in the streets and forced the government to nullify the results. With the support of an amalgam of big landlords and conservative Roman Catholics, he won the second election six weeks ago with a 39% of the vote in a four-man race. But until the victory was confirmed by Congress, the threat of mob violence hung over Guatemala City...
...popular favorite was a strange one. An aging survivor of the reactionary 1931-44 Jorge Ubico dictatorship, General Ydigoras, 62, is a hardworking, fluent spellbinder, backed by feudal landlords. Though anticlerical in the past, he casually promised to have a famed Guatemalan priest canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. M.D.N. charged that he also dropped leaflets by airplane on election day announcing that Cruz Salazar had just withdrawn from the race...
With Congressman David Vela, editor of the daily Impartial, leading the way, the opposition heatedly pointed out that even after the 1944 overthrow of Dictator Jorge Ubico no such drastic law was passed because, as Vela put it, "it would give legal weapons of oppression to the government." Vela said that President Carlos Castillo Armas is "a tolerant man, but let us remember that we are legislating not only for now but for the future as well-and the future may bring a capricious or oppressive President...
Midnight-riding cops shot and killed two men, described in communiqués as "Communist elements." The press, which has generally approved of Castillo Armas, was dismayed. El Impartial feared the re-establishment of the "abominable climate of fear and distrust" of Ubico's times...