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...Panama (pop. 880,000), after a couple of years of unprecedented stability under the lamented President José ("Chichi") Remón, is again providing notable political eruptions of its own (see below...
...country's people, torn from sleep by the high drama, heard the evidence on their radios. When the clerk finished, Panamanians struggled to grasp an appalling accusation. According to the confessed triggerman, the highest plotter in last fortnight's race-track assassination of President Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón was none other than José Ramón Guizado, Remón's Vice President and legally installed successor as President of Panama...
...chance lead provided by the young daughter of a Secret Police detective had cracked the murder plot. Her boy friend, she told her father, had smuggled back from Guatemala a submachine gun, of the type that killed Remón. Prosecuting Attorney Francisco Alvarado arrested the youth. The boy named Lawyer Ruben Miro, who had paid him $150 for the weapon. Miró confessed that he had killed Remón and three of his friends who were having a postrace party in the presidential box (TIME...
...gone to Guizado, he testified, and offered a deal: Miró would liquidate Remón, making Guizado President, if Guizado would promise Miró the key job of Minister of Government and Justice...
Vice President José Guizado, 55, who moved up to the presidency, is a millionaire contractor, educated at Nashville's Vanderbilt University, and another good friend of the U.S. But he is in poor health and lacks Chichi's tough-minded energy. Remón's death thus created a vacuum in politics as well as at the head of the National Guard. Arnulfo Arias, if he is freed, may seize the chance to whip up his followers for a new try at the presidency. Guard officers will have to recalculate their loyalties. Between political demagoguery...