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...Captain Francisco Ponce, buzzed over San Salvador. At dawn Pilot Ponce dived his Lend-Leased North American attack bomber straight at the National Police Barracks, killed six of the defenders with his ten bombs. Wounded by antiaircraft fire, he managed to fly on to the haven of a Guatemalan airfield. There he claimed that he had dropped his bombs in self-defense...
...long rainy season drew to a close last week, troops of El Salvador's Dictator Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, using Lend-Lease planes, bombed and strafed 1,000 shabby rebels back over the Guatemalan border. In Guatemala, meanwhile, the people celebrated their successful revolution (TIME, Oct. 30) by turning out in masses to vote in their first honest presidential election. These were just the high lights in Central America's recent unrest...
...Salvadoran rebels nursed their wounds. They admired the ideals of their leader, young Doctor Arturo Romero, but regretted his lack of military experience. Dictator Aguirre's threats of "dangerous consequences" to Guatemala for harboring Salvadoran rebels frightened that country's Revolutionary Junta into talking of a Mexican-Guatemalan-Costa Rican alliance against the dictators. The rest of Central America continued to strain and heave...
Then the Salvadoran Supreme Court declared Colonel Aguirre's Government unconstitutional. With this open incite ment to revolution, Chief Justice Miguel Tomas Molina fled to the Guatemalan Embassy. Into Guatemala, which last week ousted Dictator Federico Ponce in a lively revolution of its own, fled Doctor Jorge Sol Castellanos, President of the Credit Banks of El Salvador. All the country's banks closed their doors...
Young officers, students and workers last week captured Lend-Lease guns and armored cars to smash General Federico Ponce's Guatemalan dictatorship. When the shooting stopped, a provisional triumvirate ruled Guatemala: Captain Jacobo Arbenz, 28-year-old son of a Swiss druggist, who planned the revolt; Major Francisco Xavier Arana, and Jorge Toriello, son of one of Guatemala's first families...