Dictatorship In Guatemala
(Rec. 9 p.m.) GUATEMALA CITY, August 11.
The anti-Communist three-man Government junta today assumed absolute powers, suspended the Constitution and repealed all existing laws. Today’s move by the junta formalised its status as a virtual dictatorship.
Earlier, the junta dissolved all political parties, labour unions and private organisations which formed, the so-called “Communist front” functioning during the Arbenz administration.
The juridical statute issued by the junta binds Guatemala to fulfill all its international obligations and to conduct itself in accordance with existing “treaties, pacts and conventions which tend to consolidate democracy, on the basis of absolute respect for civil
; rights.” It expressed the junta’s determination to uproot communism in the ' country and to repudiate any totalitarian system based on the "omnipotence | of the State.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27427, 13 August 1954, Page 11
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