Word: valo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guatemalan oppositionists regretfully pinned the nickname chilacayote (a tough, little pumpkin) on durable President Juan José Arévalo when his car plunged over a precipice, fell apart while the President remained whole (TIME, Dec. 31). Last week oppositionists had a new angle. Said they: shortly after the wreck, the presidential staff rushed to the market, bought up a lot of chilacayotes for a presidential blood transfusion...
Orozco, private secretary to Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, had been concerned about the repressed democrats of neighboring Honduras (which, with Nicaragua, had the last dictator-run government in Central America). Orozco went on the radio, broadcast to his neighbors: "Only the pines growing high on Honduras' proud mountains have remained free in that martyred land. And their roots go deep. 'Pines of Honduras' must become the password in the struggle to make Honduras free...
Juan José Arévalo, President of Guatemala, in a plaster cast, gingerly resumed some of his duties of office. On his way to a quiet holiday in the mountains, the President and his auto had shot off the edge of a 400-ft. precipice. Car and engine bounced apart on the way down. The President miraculously broke nothing...
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...
President Arévalo. His enemies had whispered that he was pro-Argentine because of his long exile in Argentina. So the "strike" featured Gaucho costumes. With a syrupy Argentine accent, a student representing the President wooed a girl named "Guayaba" (tropical fruit, slang for the Presidency). When Guayaba hiked her skirts, she showed a label: "The Treasury." President Arévalo himself watched and laughed...