Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army of invasion ("No charge." said Alejos. "Just remember me in Havana"). Through Alejos, the CIA also arranged a $1,000,000 hurry-up surfacing of a 5,000-ft. airstrip at Retalhuleu. Starting in September, an airlift of U.S. planes shuttled between recruiting centers in Florida and the Guatemalan camps, bringing in the first of more than 2,000 combat trainees. Later, Alejos helped establish two more camps, one at San Juan Acul, close to the Mexican border, the other at Dos Lagunas in the jungles of northern Guatemala. A heavyset, grey-haired CIA agent known as "Charlie" took...
...notable exception: the late Ernest Bevin, one of whose pithier diplomatic exchanges was recounted in London last week by an old friend. Soon after Bevin took office with the Labor government in 1945, the Guatemalan minister in London asked for an audience. His mission: he wanted Britain to cede neighboring British Honduras to Guatemala. After a long, cool stare at the Guatemalan, Bevin politely asked: "What country do you say you represent?" The minister told him. "How do you spell it?" said Bevin. Irritably, the minister spelled out G-u-a-t-e-m-a-1-a. Again Bevin stared...
Flat Note. How effectively this silence works to Cuba's advantage was pointed up last week by a Guatemalan attempt to rally collective action against Castro. Fortnight ago, with U.S. approval, the Guatemalan government sent a formal note to foreign ministries across the hemisphere urging, in effect, total isolation of Cuba from the rest of the Americas both economically and diplomatically...
...Limits. At brief dedication ceremonies in late September, Guatemalan President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes an nounced that the strip had been built to promote the export of bananas, meat and shrimp. But the field was immediately put off limits to all civil aircraft. Last Oct. 14 a band of Ydigoras' opponents complained in Congress that hundreds of Cubans were being given commando training by U.S. instructors at the air-base and at several coffee plantations in the area - including one owned by a close friend of the President. As evidence, they cited reports from a carpenter who had worked...
Ydigoras quickly admitted that Guatemalan troops were receiving special commando training on the plantations, but denied that any Cubans were involved. Combing the area at the time, investigating reporters found that the facts supported Ydigoras: there was no trace of any major Cuban force...