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02-01-2010, 01:03 PM
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Jacobo Arbenz.
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The Dulles Brothers. Sieg Heil.
Full article here (http://www.pateplumaradio.com/central/guatemala/vozlib.html)
Pretty damn interesting story, and while they brought a lot of pain to Central America, you can't help but admire their intelligence. I look forward to the day when the best and brightest that enter the world's IC are actually used to solve the world's problems instead of global domination.
When that happens we could sort out the whole damn planet in 6 months.
Article starts:
The Clandestine Grandaddy of Central America
By Don Moore
A slightly edited version of this article was originally published in the April, 1989 issue of Monitoring Times (http://www.monitoringtimes.com/)magazine.
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To DXers, the 1980s have been the era of the Central American clandestines: Radio Veneremos, Radio Quince de Septiembre, Radio Farabundo Marti, Radio Liberacion, the list seems endless. The political situation never seems to really change, and the stations are there month after month to be logged. Optimally, a political clandestine station gets its job done fast, and then leaves the air, victorious. For that type of success, today's stations have a role model in Central America's first political clandestine. In 1954, the granddaddy of them all came on the air, overthrew a government almost single-handed, and then left the air just two months later. Its story is not well known. But perhaps at night, on the mountainsides and in the jungles of Central America, the announcers at Radio Venceremos or Radio Quince de Septiembre sit around the fire and talk about La Voz de la Liberacion.
http://www.pateplumaradio.com/central/guatemala/guatgrph/guatmap.gif Guatemala, Central America's most important and populous nation, has an unfortunate history of sometimes cruel, sometimes odd, dictators. In 1931, the country was taken over by General Jorge Ubico. One of Ubico's favorite pastimes was to ride around the country on a motorcycle, with a machinegun strapped around his back. In other ways, he was the stereotype of banana republic dictators: anyone who crossed him or violated even the most minor of his laws might just be pushed against an adobe wall and shot. Thousands were. Still, Ubico had his good points: one of his hobbies was shortwave radio, and he prefered using shortwave, instead of the telephone or telegraph, whenever sending messages to officials around the country.
Assumedly it was Ubico's violent one-man rule, not his shortwave hobby that led to his overthrow in 1944. Following massive protests by schoolteachers and students, Ubico was forced to resign and hand over the government to several left-wing army officers, headed by Colonel Jacabo Arbenz. In 1945, elections were held and rule of the country was turned over to a civilian government. During the next elections, in 1950 Arbenz, just 37 years old, ran for the presidency and won handily. His role in the coup of 1944 had not been forgotten.
In the 1950s, most of the countries of Latin America were controled by right-wing military dictatorships. Many liberal civilian politicians were not allowed to live freely in their own countries. One of Arbenz's first acts was to open Guatemala's doors to political exiles from all over Latin America. However, not only were liberal politicians allowed in, but so were hundreds of exiled Communists and revolutionaries. Although Arbenz said that this was because he believed all men had the right to live freely, regardless of their beliefs, not everyone believed him.
Meanwhile, in the Guatemalan congress, Arbenz was supported by a fifty-one member coaltion which included the four Communist Party representatives. As part of the coaltion, Guatemalan communists were given several minor posts in the Arbenz government, mainly in the Agriculture Department. With McCarthyism at its height in the United States, Washington began to keep a watchful eye on Guatemala.
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Jacobo Arbenz.
http://www.nogw.com/images/gen-gehlen-in-wwii.gif
The Dulles Brothers. Sieg Heil.
Full article here (http://www.pateplumaradio.com/central/guatemala/vozlib.html)
Pretty damn interesting story, and while they brought a lot of pain to Central America, you can't help but admire their intelligence. I look forward to the day when the best and brightest that enter the world's IC are actually used to solve the world's problems instead of global domination.
When that happens we could sort out the whole damn planet in 6 months.
Article starts:
The Clandestine Grandaddy of Central America
By Don Moore
A slightly edited version of this article was originally published in the April, 1989 issue of Monitoring Times (http://www.monitoringtimes.com/)magazine.
http://www.pateplumaradio.com/gp/bluebar.gif
To DXers, the 1980s have been the era of the Central American clandestines: Radio Veneremos, Radio Quince de Septiembre, Radio Farabundo Marti, Radio Liberacion, the list seems endless. The political situation never seems to really change, and the stations are there month after month to be logged. Optimally, a political clandestine station gets its job done fast, and then leaves the air, victorious. For that type of success, today's stations have a role model in Central America's first political clandestine. In 1954, the granddaddy of them all came on the air, overthrew a government almost single-handed, and then left the air just two months later. Its story is not well known. But perhaps at night, on the mountainsides and in the jungles of Central America, the announcers at Radio Venceremos or Radio Quince de Septiembre sit around the fire and talk about La Voz de la Liberacion.
http://www.pateplumaradio.com/central/guatemala/guatgrph/guatmap.gif Guatemala, Central America's most important and populous nation, has an unfortunate history of sometimes cruel, sometimes odd, dictators. In 1931, the country was taken over by General Jorge Ubico. One of Ubico's favorite pastimes was to ride around the country on a motorcycle, with a machinegun strapped around his back. In other ways, he was the stereotype of banana republic dictators: anyone who crossed him or violated even the most minor of his laws might just be pushed against an adobe wall and shot. Thousands were. Still, Ubico had his good points: one of his hobbies was shortwave radio, and he prefered using shortwave, instead of the telephone or telegraph, whenever sending messages to officials around the country.
Assumedly it was Ubico's violent one-man rule, not his shortwave hobby that led to his overthrow in 1944. Following massive protests by schoolteachers and students, Ubico was forced to resign and hand over the government to several left-wing army officers, headed by Colonel Jacabo Arbenz. In 1945, elections were held and rule of the country was turned over to a civilian government. During the next elections, in 1950 Arbenz, just 37 years old, ran for the presidency and won handily. His role in the coup of 1944 had not been forgotten.
In the 1950s, most of the countries of Latin America were controled by right-wing military dictatorships. Many liberal civilian politicians were not allowed to live freely in their own countries. One of Arbenz's first acts was to open Guatemala's doors to political exiles from all over Latin America. However, not only were liberal politicians allowed in, but so were hundreds of exiled Communists and revolutionaries. Although Arbenz said that this was because he believed all men had the right to live freely, regardless of their beliefs, not everyone believed him.
Meanwhile, in the Guatemalan congress, Arbenz was supported by a fifty-one member coaltion which included the four Communist Party representatives. As part of the coaltion, Guatemalan communists were given several minor posts in the Arbenz government, mainly in the Agriculture Department. With McCarthyism at its height in the United States, Washington began to keep a watchful eye on Guatemala.
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