Word: valo
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Like the Dominican Republic's Balaguer, Méndez faces some heavy historical adds. Since Guatemala's inde pendence in 1847, only one civilian President, Leftist Juan Jose Arévalo (1945-51), has completed his term. Besides an itchy military, Guatemala is also plagued by a stagnant economy and mounting extremist agitation from both right-wing and Communist terrorists. Though Méndez was not talking specific solutions or programs last week, he was confident in the knowledge that he had fully 30 of the new Guatemalan Congress' 55 members on his side...
Last year, exiled Juan José Arévalo, 58, the Yankee hater (The Shark and the Sardines) who made friends with the Communists during his 1945-51 term as President, announced that he was returning to run for President again. Ydigoras let it be known that he would hale Arévalo into court if he set foot in Guatemala. Then he had a better idea: Why not let Arévalo return and beat him at an election? Ydigoras could do this by his control of the election machinery. Ydigoras' own candidate was Roberto Alejos, a planter...
...aimed at Ydigoras-one of Central America's stoutest anti-Castro fighters, though weakened by a corrupt and ineffective regime at home. It was, instead, designed to prevent the comeback of a man cordially hated both by Ydigoras and his soldiers: Juan José Arévalo, 58, President of Guatemala from 1945 to 1951, an anti-Yankee (The Shark and the Sardines) leftist who permitted Communists in his government. Living in exile in Mexico City, Arévalo promised to return to Guatemala on March 31, install himself as a presidential candidate in next November's elections...
Last week, as Arévalo's return drew near, Guatemala was declared in a "state of siege," and travel was restricted. Somehow Arévalo slipped through the net into Guatemala. In a secret interview to newsmen he called himself a democrat: "I do not like Communism and will not be a Communist." Then he disappeared. A few hours later, the military made their move. A communiqué after the coup promised to restore constitutional rights "when the country is ready,'' and "extremists have been eradicated...
...Castro, says Arévalo, Communism will not work in Latin America or anywhere else. "You can see that by going over their record in Cuba...