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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...
...cops dusted off a law that dates to the dictatorship of Jorge Ubico (1931-44), and makes "speaking ill of the President" punishable by prison terms of six months to three years. One of the first arrested turned out to be a pro-government editor whose words were misunderstood by informers; he was beaten, then hastily freed. Small boys up before dawn were searched (and found to be newspaper deliverers...
...adversaries, the new President last week made a decision that shocked his liberal supporters. To boss the secret police, Castillo Armas picked Guatemala's toughest cop, José Bernabé Linares, 51. As most Guatemalans know, when Linares last ran the secret police under the late Dictator Jorge Ubico his men submerged political enemies in electric-shock baths and perfected a head-shrinking steel skull cap to pry loose secrets and crush improper political thoughts. Whatever else Linares' appointment meant, it suggested that Castillo Armas' latest command decision was not to toy with the enemy forces...
...Castillo Armas planned no abrupt swing to the right. His coup came to Guatemala in the midst of a ten-year-old social revolution against a series of dictatorships that had ruled for 105 years before. The rebel, who sided with Arbenz in the 1944 overthrow of Dictator Jorge Ubico, has no nostalgia for the old days. Last week he promised to consolidate all "social reforms benefiting the working class" and to "continue the public works begun by our enemies." Land redistribution, which has been slowly getting some of the country's huge estates into peasant hands, will stay...