Word: valo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been killed in presidential campaign street fighting. University students, merchants and professional men, blaming the police for the deaths, had launched a general strike. Thus, once again, enemies of the government gathered in downtown Sixth Avenue to demand the resignation of left-wing President Juan José Arévalo. At the same time, 3,000 Arevalista workers, backers of government Presidential Candidate Jacopo Arbenz, staged a counter-demonstration in the Parque Barrios...
...National Palace, 32-year-old Major Carlos Paz Tejada, army chief, strode into a cabinet meeting, told President Arévalo that the army had been forced to take over to keep order...
Best guess was that Patterson had trod on the pink toes of President Juan Jose Arévalo's "Spiritual Socialist" government by harping too strongly on the influence of Communists in Guatemala. No responsible observer has claimed that Arevalo's government is run from Moscow. But some open Communist sympathizers (the party itself is legally banned) have risen to key positions in the labor movement, and have taken advantage of government support to badger U.S. companies...