Word: guatemalan
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Neither side had rushed headlong into combat. Both knew that the outcome would almost certainly depend on whether the regular Guatemalan army, some 6,000 strong and not at all Communist, stuck by the government or swung over to the anti-Communist cause. But whether the Guatemalan clash swelled into bitter and prolonged civil bloodshed or petered out in anticlimax and frustration, the issue was nonetheless clearly drawn. Guatemala, in its special way, was a small-scale sequel to Korea and Indo-China. and the world knew it. Even the United Nations Security Council stirred into action; it held...
...Supreme Chief." The invading anti-Communist rebels were mainly Guatemalans who had been driven into exile in recent years. Their leader, emerging from almost total obscurity, was Carlos Castillo Armas, 40, sometime colonel in the Guatemalan army, who had been jailed in Guatemala City in 1950 after an attempted revolt, but tunneled spectacularly out of prison and fled. Living in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he made himself a symbol of the exiled right-wing opposition to Guatemala's Communists. He also began quietly collecting arms, money...
...boxes of arms appeared and were loaded into trucks. Soldiers were recruited, and promised pay of $2.50 a day. The force thus swiftly mobilized was uniformed in fresh suntans, and airlifted (in commercial DC-3s, at $400 a flight) to Macuelizo, Copan and Nueva Ocotepeque. Honduran hamlets on the Guatemalan frontier...
Main points: 1) interception and confiscation of any further arms shipments from Communist sources to Guatemala;-2) a five-nation watchdog commission to enforce the arms quarantine and to keep an eye on Guatemalan infiltration among its neighbors; and 3) no action for the present on economic sanctions that might bring hardship to Guatemala's people...
...midweek the Guatemalan government announced that it had captured documents and secret codes, and Interior Minister Augusto Charnaud MacDonald portentously declared: "A plot-one of the best-organized conspiracies in the history of the country-has been unearthed. Those arrested were the vanguard of forces based on foreign soil." The plot, whether real or fancied, was convenient, and it roused the regime's supporters to demands for action. The Communist chief of the peasants' union called on his followers to be ready to join a rural militia to shoot antiCommunists. And Communist Congressman César Montenegro Paniagua...