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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...
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...
Just a few blocks away, in Guatemala's green stone National' Palace, President Juan José Arévalo, once the Legion's staunch supporter, had also accepted its demise. He was still half-heartedly chasing his old dream of a democratic Central American confederation, but he had shifted to diplomatic means. The new approach involved cooing noises aimed toward Honduras and El Salvador. Inspired newspaper stories spoke hopefully of future meetings between Arevalo and Honduras' new President Juan Manuel Gálvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio...
...matter of hard fact, both Osorio and Gálvez probably preferred hard-boiled Somoza to "Spiritual Socialist" Arévalo. But both were enjoying governmental honeymoons ("Glory to God in Heaven and Gálvez in Honduras!" burbled a Tegucigalpa poster), and both were playing it cagey. They proclaimed their respective countries friendly to Guatemala "as to all nations," pleaded ignorance of any plans to meet Arévalo, and let it go at that...
Tacho rammed a Chesterfield into a holder, squinted off toward the Pacific, and grinned. "Arévalo set out to bomb me last spring. Hell, I didn't even move from my house. The trouble with a stunt like that is that the plotter doesn't think it can be turned against him. Right now I'm going to buy the same A20 that Arévalo was going to use against me. I take these boys' toys away from them whenever I can." Tacho's belly shook with laughter as he flopped back into...