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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...
...learned a lot about Mexican labor, land, Church, oil and political problems, and about the German colony, "probably the most effective Fifth Column agency in all Latin America." Central America. "One of the most remarkable characters in the Americas" is 63-year-old General Jorge Ubico, Guatemala's "constitutional President" who is "an utterly complete dictator." He keeps Guatemala "as orderly as an empty bil liard table," himself patrols the whole country on a motorcycle. When he finds a lazy official relaxing in an automobile, he takes the car away from him, gives him a motorcycle. "Try this...