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...change at all, little Costa Rica (pop. 800,875) has the firmest grip on democracy. Its citizens like their Presidents elected, their press free, their schools strong. They feel no need for an army but will rise in arms when they must. A citizen army, under Coffee Planter Jose Figueres, fought in 1948 to stop a scheming government from keeping an elected President, Otilio Ulate, out of office. Figueres won handily, and, as promised, turned the government back to Ulate. Since then, President Ulate has run the republic in the way its democratic citizens like...
...original bloodshed, 2) the victim's agony before death, 3) the victim's actual death and 4) the re-establishment of friendly relations. When the fine gets so high that the compensation machinery breaks down, tribal war follows. That was what happened two years ago when Jose Velasquez, one of the Epieyus (Blackbird) chiefs, got liquored up and gunned down Jose Aguilar, a chief of the Epinayu (Weasel) tribe...
When he appeared at the CMQ studio for his regular Sunday broadcast this week, Chibás seemed depressed. He turned the microphone over to a friend, Jose Pardo Llada, who roasted the Autenticos for 20 minutes; Chibás himself made only a short speech. He ended with: "People of Cuba, awake!" Then he fumbled under the coat of his natty, double-breasted white suit, grasped his .38-cal. revolver, squeezed the trigger. The bullet ripped into his belly, shattering his spine...
July seems to be the month for violence in Guatemala. In that month of 1949, the assassination of Colonel Francisco J. Arana, chief of the armed forces, sparked a brief, bloody revolt against the left-wing government of President Juan Jose Arevalo. The following July, anti-Arevalo demonstrations in Guatemala City touched off another uprising. Last week again, there were gunfire and bloodshed in the streets of the capital...
...Rebellion. Jose Vega began his career as a Roman Catholic priest. But in 1943, when he decided to marry, he had to leave the Roman clergy. Then one day in Mexico City he came upon the Mexican Catholic Cathedral of San Jose de Gracia. There, he learned how he could enter the priesthood again without renouncing his wife...