Word: valo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retiring President was Juan José Arévalo, who, after the 1944 revolution, had been called to the post from Argentine exile, had confounded the prophets by surviving 28 revolutionary plots and serving out his full six-year term. His successor: Colonel Jacobo Arbenz, 37, son of a Swiss pharmacist, onetime Defense Minister under Arévalo...
Under "Spiritual Socialist" Arévalo, who seems to believe that he has led his people through the same kind of revolution as Mexico's, Guatemala became the hemisphere's most left-wing country. In their zeal to proclaim their independence of the U.S., Arévalo's followers fell under the influence of anti-yanqui propaganda put out by local Communists, and accepted Red leadership in their trade unions. Arévalo gave all moral and material aid he could to the Caribbean Legion's attempts to overthrow rightist dictatorships in Nicaragua, Honduras...
...days late in July, revolution seemed just a whisper away as enemies of the government demanded the resignation of left-wing President Juan José Arévalo...
...strict curfew and censorship, began confiscating all arms held by civilians. He also called in the strikers and got their agreement to go back. Happy conservatives rejoiced that a new order had been established, with Paz Tejada as the strong man. Now, they thought, the Communists whom Arévalo had been harboring in some government posts would be sacked, and candidates opposing Jacopo Arbenz would get a fair deal in this year's election...
...will be in a very good position to guarantee free elections." Nothing had really changed. Paz Tejada, who owed his present job to ex-Defense Minister Arbenz, had delivered the army's support to its old boss when he most needed it. And Juan José Arévalo was still president, having survived the 28th attempt against his regime in his five years in office...