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...Dictator Jorge Ubico heard that the mob was hunting him "like a wild beast." took refuge in the British Legation...
Unsmiling General. When Guatemala's hated Dictator Jorge Ubico resigned the presidency, he delegated power to a junta of three generals. The leader, hard and unsmiling Federico Ponce, promptly convoked Ubico's hand-picked Congress, over awed it by stationing troops at the doors. Obediently, the deputies elected him Provisional President. Five young lawyers who protested were slapped into jail. Ponce's government won astonishingly prompt U.S. approval...
Ponce acted as though he were keeping the government in trust for Ubico and fired very few of his men. According to one story, Ubico himself did not flee to Mexico, as first reported, but simply retired to a private house on the capital's Fourteenth...
Before leaving Guatemala for Mexico City, Ubico delegated his power to a military junta. But the people wanted real self-government; they had at least a chance to start their climb toward democracy...
...Ubico's downfall reduced the "Dictators' Club" of Central America to half its former membership. Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez of El Salvador fell last May before a popular strike which set the pattern for Guatemala. The two survivors, Dictator Tiburcio Carías of Honduras and Dictator Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, were seriously threatened by the wave of unarmed strikes sweeping Latin America...