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From under a hot towel the dictator resumed a conversation with some visitors; he rumbled a volley of curses against Guatemala's President Juan José Arévalo, Tacho's worst enemy and the Legion's most forthright backer. As Tacho well knows, Arévalo is winking at the arming and training of Nicaraguan exiles to lead a revolution against his Nicaraguan neighbor...
Last month they went to Guatemala City for strategy talks with Arévalo and Nicaraguan exile leaders. Last week they made their first move. Guatemalan-registered air transports began landing in Costa Rica to take aboard the Legion's khaki-clad recruits. Once again, the airlift was on; again it bypassed Tacho's wall. This time the recruits and gear were headed for an encampment at Poptum, in the remote Guatemalan province of El Peten. Even though the move was no surprise this time, Tacho could do nothing about it: Arevalo's air force was bigger...
...PRESIDENT-ELECT Carlos Prío Socarrás, who had already received the full treatment in Mexico (TIME, Aug. 9) and who plans to visit the U.S. after his inauguration in November, turned up in Guatemala City. He and Guatemala's President Juan José Arévalo found a mutual bond in their distaste for the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo and Nicaragua's Anastasio
...That Arévalo. He hates me. I don't know why. Lord, he has troubles of his own in Guatemala-why bother to stick his nose into Nicaragua?" Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, who is proud of his English, paused abruptly and jabbed a fat finger into the stuffed Guatemalan quetzal that hung by his desk. "The quetzal-symbol of liberty or death to the Guatemalans," he snickered. "There are lots of tame ones in the Bronx...
...general hitched up his paunch, went on berating Guatemala's President. "Ever since Arévalo took office," he rumbled, "that man has caused trouble in the Caribbean. Now we've got a hell of a problem brewing around Central America, and something has got to be done to stop it. Look at that Figueres, a tool of Arévalo. God knows what he's up to now that he's got hold of Costa Rica. And all those Dominican and Nicaraguan exiles. I wonder if those birds in all those plots realize that Central...