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...Guatemala (pop. 3,100,000) has been buffeted, since last summer's successful revolution, by one attempted army revolt and an assortment of serious economic woes. At one time, President Carlos Castillo Armas was reported ready to help Somoza topple the Costa Rican regime, but he apparently changed his mind...
...Arnulfo Arias, M.D. '25, prominent suspect in connection with last Sunday's assassination of Panamanian President Jose Antonio Remon, is the second Harvard graduate to have attempted a Central American revolution by violence. Pedro Albizu y Campos '16, Puerto Rican Nationalist, was an organizer of the shootings in the House of Representatives last March...
...Five Congressmen shot by Puerto Rican Nationalists...
...last weekend ordered jet fighters to the Panama Canal Zone, where no jets have been based for the past six years. The move was aimed at stopping a projected invasion of Costa Rica by disgruntled Costa Rican émigrés, mightily helped by Nicaragua's tough strongman, Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
...after a party at the U.S. embassy. About every dark of the moon since then, some kind of anti-Figueres plot has popped up. In July the U.S. got Somoza cooled off only after he had sent a mile-long convoy of armored cars and trucks to the Costa Rican border. But the current plot looked more like the big show than any of the warmups...