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Newly democratic Guatemala's university students went on a long-awaited rampage last week. Fourteen years ago Dictator Jorge Ubico had savagely suppressed their traditional Eastertide "Huelga Estudiantil" (Students' Strike); now at last, in the liberal light of President Juan José Arévalo's regime, it roared its way through the laugh-hungry city. Now there was at least twice the oldtime noise, fun, bawdiness...
...fifth of those who voted in the presidential elections) turned out to choose members for a constituyente (constitutional convention) which will draft a new constitution for the country. Some Guatemalans had no idea what a constituyente was. Besides, even under the tyrannical rule of Dictator Jorge Ubico, they had had a constitution-one "so beautiful that it would make you weep." They felt that what they needed was a president who would treat them right. Most Guatemalans (even the distrustful Indians who form a large part of the population) felt that they had such a man in big, handsome President...
...revolt had been smoldering since last July, when an uprising ousted Dictator Jorge Ubico. By pretending that he would hold free elections for the first time in 23 years, General Federico Ponce got himself elected as temporary President by the Ubico-picked Legislature...
...free press sprang up. Most Guatemalans joined labor "guilds," exacted living wages for the first time. Tight Ubico monopolies were broken up. Pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Carlos Salazar was forced into retirement. The Government at last expropriated German-owned coffee plantations. Refugees returned. The Presidential campaign got under...
Then General Ponce took to riding in Ubico's armored limousine. Suddenly he struck. Hundreds of workers, students, teachers, lawyers and doctors were jailed