Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, on shore, we discussed this phenomenon. After consulting local authorities, the Captain and I decided that the island was a Guatemalan Dragger-crunch, which appears only when all the world's children under the age of six have brushed their teeth three times...
...inside men" of last week's plot to topple the Guatemalan government were supposed to fling open the gates at Aurora air base, the country's key military post, precisely at 1:30 p.m. A little before that time, 25 of the plotters drifted casually around; four dozen others crouched in nearby thickets, ready to storm in. At the appointed minute, the gates flew open-disclosing two tanks and a platoon of soldiers drawn up with automatic weapons ready. "We're sunk!" whispered one attacker. Other troops closed in on the conspirators in the bushes...
...bomb. On the bomb is a leering caricature of President Eisenhower. Whispering in the secretary's ear is his brother, Allen Dulles, head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Between Dulles and Castillo Armas, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy (now envoy to Thailand) passes out greenbacks to eager Guatemalan soldiers. As presumably downtrodden workers load a banana boat, and the battered corpses of little children lie unnoticed underfoot, Archbishop Verolino, the papal nuncio, blesses the joyous scene...
...three-month "leave from exile" expired, Arbenz would be back primed with money and promises of Communist guns for a try at regaining power in Guatemala. The rumors were partly based on the fact that Arbenz has been conspiratorially busy; Mexico's government has repeatedly cautioned its numerous Guatemalan exiles to refrain from "political activity." Arbenz' arrogant refusal to do so has left a bad taste with many Mexicans; the leading daily Excelsior last week sourly cartooned him as a hen flying off and leaving a brood of chicks marked with the hammer and sickle. Stopping in Paris...
...many burdens he inherited was a set of leftist petroleum laws admirably designed to keep the country's oil in the ground by frightening investors and prospectors away. Last week, in a temporary decree. Castillo Armas opened the entire national territory to surface or air exploration by reputable Guatemalan or foreign oilmen. Details of concessions for future development were left for a permanent oil law, now being prepared with the help of Venezuelan technicians...