Word: valos
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...Reds had won the round; the strike had compelled Arbenz to show his hand. "We consider this a complete victory," said the rail union secretary. "The handwriting was on the wall of the boxcar," said a businessman. "Arbenz will follow Arévalo down the left side of the road...
What was it all about? The Reds who have bored into Guatemalan labor were boldly forcing a quick showdown with the country's new President Jacobo Arbenz. Only seven weeks ago, Colonel Arbenz took over from "Spiritual Socialist" Juan José Arévalo, who for six years had run the hemisphere's most left-wing regime...
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...
...valo's successor is anything but an idealist and dreamer. Colonel Arbenz is a soldier, whose road to the presidency was suddenly cleared one day in July 1949 when the popular favorite for the succession, Army Boss Francisco Araña, was cut down by assassins' bullets. In his first speech, after donning the blue & white sash of office last week, he was guarded and noncommittal. His new cabinet reflected the left-center coalition that had elected him. As his foreign minister he picked a left-winger, but he also assigned an important place as minister without portfolio...
...State Department hopes that Guatemala, under President Arbenz, will turn from Arévalo's leftist path. A property-holder as well as a militarist, he has repeatedly told fellow planters: "Don't worry, I'm not going to share my coffee fincas with anybody...