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Dollars & Blood. Visitors from the U.S. have loudly praised Guatemala's Dictator Jorge Ubico. They have admired Guatemala's orderliness, its clean-swept streets, its impressive public buildings. But these observers did not see, or else ignored, the real Guatemala behind this façade. Last week, after a stay in Dictator Ubico's realm, a TIME correspondent reported in detail on one of the world's most flagrant tyrannies...
Back in the days of waning dollar-diplomacy, Dictator Ubico was "elected" President with U.S. blessing. Guatemalans noted that at the same time (1931) the potent United Fruit Co. wanted a juicy concession which the previous regime had refused to grant on United Fruit's terms. Ubico's first important act as President was to force the Assembly to pass the concession bill...
Guatemala resembles a neat, well-run model prison under President Jorge Ubico, who thinks that he looks like Napoleon and postures accordingly. Foreign interests find him cooperative, admire the trembling honesty of his minor officials. Guatemala's atmosphere of all-pervading terror is probably the worst in Latin America...
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...
...When Ubico became Dictator, La Maciste moved up with him. She imitated her boss in every way, smoked the same cigarets, drove the same make of car. The Dictator's license plate is No. 5; La Maciste...