The Third World War

Galindez and the Caribbean Frontier

The assassination of President Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatemala is part of an unfolding pattern of Caribbean events. Castillo, as a graduate of our Fort Leavenworth Command and General Staff School, as leader of the revolt against the Communist-directed regime of Jacopo Arbenz Guzman, and as recipient of heavy U. S. backing before and after that revolt, was a prime symbol of the facts of life in the Caribbean. His death, in turn, is a symbol of Moscow’s determination to change those facts.