Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaning heavily on his spirited and strongly Marxist wife Maria Cristina (nicknamed "Maruca"), Arbenz left Mexico, alighted briefly in France and in Switzerland, where $2,000,000 of Guatemalan government money reportedly waited in a numbered bank account. Then he settled in Prague. In 1956 he visited Moscow for several months, but the Russians sized him up as a lightweight, Marxist-wise. Leaving his two daughters in a Russian boarding school, he headed back to the Western Hemisphere, landing in Montevideo in May 1957. Politically, he observed the rules of asylum by masking his Communist contacts as Russian language lessons...
...quitter and a has-been. Instead, Arbenz will continue the role of propaganda showpiece that he began last week before the cameras of Havana's Televisión-Revolución. "Latin America was jolted by the intervention of North American imperialism in Guatemala," he said. "The Guatemalan situation will not be repeated in Cuba. When a people is so united and determined to win, when it has leaders so self-denying, audacious and brave, when...
...Foster Dulles pushed through a resolution opposing Communist domination of any Latin American nation. The disapproval among Che's friends in Guatemala was immediate and violent, and he was swept along by their passion. Two months later, with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as a silent partner, a Guatemalan colonel named Carlos Castillo Armas launched his counter-revolutionary invasion of the Red-dominated country. As F-47s swooped down over Guatemala City with U.S. pilots at the controls, Guevara dashed blindly around town trying to organize a resistance force. When Arbenz caved in without a fight, Guevara...
...exclude no neighbor from vilification, Castro's Foreign Minister Raúl Roa accused Guatemalan President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes of cooperating with the United Fruit Co. in planning a Guatemala-based, seaborne invasion of Cuba. Other Latin American leaders held their tempers. But Ydigoras issued his own May Day message to Cuba. He recalled his ambassador from Havana, and disgustedly severed diplomatic relations with Castro's government...
...year-old Guatemalan Communist, appointed by the Labor Ministry, took over the Havana office of the Otis Elevator Co., fired the manager, put himself on the payroll, and began managing the business so that the company fears ruin...