Word: salvadoran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discourage any wavering army units from joining the rebels. Then 1,000 infantrymen, backed by artillery and tanks, marched up to the military police barracks. Forero, disheartened by the failure of other armed forces to support him, surrendered his hostages in return for safe conduct to asylum in the Salvadoran embassy. By midday the city and country were firmly back in the junta's hands. And this week's election, broadcast Piedrahita for the junta, will be guaranteed "even if it costs us our lives...
...ringleader, he said, was Colonel Francisco Cosenza, onetime Ambassador to Rome. Cosenza let lesser plotters launch the attack and, after satisfying himself that it had failed, scampered to asylum in the Salvadoran embassy. Grudge holders of other stripes also took part: Communists, rightists, disgruntled officers. The most surprising suspect was Colonel El-fego Monzón, who as army chief negotiated the peace with Castillo Armas after Arbenz stepped down. Monzón at first served on a governing junta with Castillo Armas, then drifted into the background, his loyalties unclear. His involvement in last week's dustup consisted...
...Jacobo Arbenz-after first forcing the Government Development Bank to extend a second mortgage on his cotton farm for $200,000 payable to his wife. He is also accused of having taken funds from the Treasury. Other government fat cats, who had done their looting earlier, were in the Salvadoran embassy; their six 1954 Cadillacs crowded the ambassadorial courtyard...
...strafed Guatemala City and Puerto Barrios. Arbenz was embarrassingly unable to fight back. His air force, made up of a few lightly armed trainers, was no match for F-47s, even if he could trust his pilots. But four of them, at least, had defected, taking refuge in the Salvadoran Embassy...
...traveled to villages where no American had ever been seen before, delivered speeches in good Spanish before civic groups, labor unions and schoolchildren at the rate of two a week."He has dedicated more sewers, slaughterhouses and clinics than a half-dozen politicians," wrote one admiring Salvadoran newspaperman. Once, when he turned up at a dinner celebrating the opening of a library in dusty Suchitoto (pop. 10,619), he called in the cook, asked her to dance with...