Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scattered over five U.S. campuses-Arizona State College, Oklahoma A. & M., the Universities of New Mexico, Arizona and Texas-100 Guatemalan teachers last week began what may well become a major experiment in Good Neighborliness. With $170,000 from the Foreign Operations Administration, the teachers will spend two months studying U.S. public-school methods, will also get some idea of what the U.S. is all about. Apparently, the program has already had effect. Said Pedro T. Cruz of San Carlos University: "I am charmed . . . I am going to take this lesson in democracy back to Guatemala and help remove...
...count the Guatemalan Reds out yet, warned Ambassador John E. Peurifoy, U.S. envoy to Guatemala during Arbenz' last months and a negotiator of the post-revolution truce. "They ran like a bunch of rats," Peurifoy said, testifying in Washington last week before the House Subcommittee on Communist Aggression in Latin America, but that only scattered them to various Latin American countries where they "represent a great danger, and I hope those governments are alert to the situation...
Crackdown followed showdown in Guatemala last week. Having weathered a stormy counterrevolt of army officers who hankered after another change (TIME, Aug. 16), Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas finally struck at Guatemalan Communism with the sort of command decisions his followers have been demanding since the June revolution...
...reason to prolong its nervous interregnum and unanimously voted Castillo Armas into office. Then two Monzon supporters resigned, leaving the junta composed of the new provisional President, one of the officers who fought in his rebel army, and Monzon, who stayed on to be the voice of the regular Guatemalan army. Castillo Armas' 2,000 tattered troops planned to muster...
...assembly to write a new constitution, and later for the presidency. Running the risk of uniformed criticism, he deprived the country's illiterates of the vote. Trucking unlettered Indians to the polls and showing them where to put the cross has long been the favorite way of Guatemalan Presidents, including Arbenz and his dictatorial predecessors, of getting into office or staying there. In refusing ballots to citizens who cannot read or write, Castillo Armas freely surrendered a traditional weapon for keeping power...