TORIELLO GARRIDO, GUILLERMO

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GUATEMALA:
Toriello Garrido, Guillermo
Castillo Arriola, Eduardo
Estrada de la Hoz, Julio
Gomez Padilla, Julio
Gonzalex Orellanop Carlos
Sierra Franco, Raul
Mendoza, Jose Lius
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TORIELLO Garrido, Guillermo
The appointment in July 1952 of Guillermo Toriello as Guatemala's
Ambassador to the United States represented a vague attempt to improve
relations between the two countries. He is a friend of President Arben.z,
professes strong anticommunist sentiments, and is believed to be basically
friendly toward the United States, despite certain public criticims of U.S.
policies. During his short term as Minister of Foreign Relations in President
Arevalo's cabinet, he inade a great show of cultivating friendly relations
with the other Central American republics nd with Great Britain, though he
remained adamant in his intransigent attitude toward Latin American dicta-
torships and on the Belize question. Toriello's value as a conciliator may
be tempered considerably by his headstrong, rather irresponsible character,
and an almost childish air &boastfulness and love of the spectacular, as
exemplified by his remarks at the time he was offered the post in Washington.
He immediately caused it to be bruited about that he had been selected in
order to "harmonize and improve relations, which are now terrible" and that
he would not consider the appointment unless President Arbenz made a deter-
mined effort to rid his government of communists and to stifle current propa-
ganda against the United States.
Ambassador Toriello is a brother of Jorge Toriello, the civilian member
of the Revolutionary Junta which assumed control of the Guatemalan Govern-
ment, pending elections, after the October 1944 revolt. Like his older
brother he became identified with the anti-Ubico element some time before
the President's overthrow and was, publicly at least, more active than Jorge.
His sense of bravado led him into an open defiance of Ubico's chief of police
which was both ludicrous and foolhardy, and was doubtless viewed in this
light by the authorities, for only once was he apprehended, and then for a very
short time. Under the succeeding short-lived Ponce regime he became a
champion of the agitating students, assuming the stature of a hero in the eyes
of the country's youth, and played an active part in the Organizing Committee
for Civic Union (Comite Organizador de la Union Civica), a supposedly non-
partisan organization set up to guarantee civil rights to agitators who were
imprisoned by the Ponce authorities. He was jailed once for these activities,
but a second attempt to arrest him led to a comic-strip race to the Mexican
Embassy for asylum. Subsequently he went to Mexico. Three days after
Ponce's overthrow, however, he returned to Guatemala, obtained appointment
as official representative of the junta government to Mexico and on November 22,
1944 was designated ambassador to that country. The following April he was
made Foreign Minister in Arevalo's cabinet, but resigned in December because
he was not in accord with Arevalo's policies.
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veer Nimo,
As Foreign Minister Toriello distinguished himself principally by his
activities in favor of breaking relatins with the Spanish Government and his
espousal of the Belize question. He ledhis country's' delegation to the United
Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco. Previously,
while in Mexico, he had attended the Chapultepec Conference. Later, he was
a delegate to the Inter-American Congress for Democracy and Freedom at
Habana in May 1950, and headed the Guatemala delegation to the seventh
session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 1952.
The Toriello family does not have an entirely enviable reputation in
Guatemala. Guillermo is the youngest of six brothers, some of whom have
rather easy consciences with a sort of elastic resilience in money matters.
Their strained relations with Ubico grew out of a dispute among the brothers
over a government contract. President Ubico forced an equitable distribution
of the profits and order a close supervision over their financial activities,
denying them access to large government contracts and unlimited commercial
credit. Thus hampered in their activiteis, they developed a consuming hatred
for Ubico and ardently affiliated themselves with the revolutionary elements,
becoming most vociferous -apologists of democratic ideals. Upon Ubico's
overthrow, the Toriellos in revenge reputedly rifled the Ubico premises of
portable articles and purloined Senora Ubico's jewels, which they later
transmitted to the United States under the protection of diplomatic immunity
and sold.
Guillermo was born i in Guatemala City on November 11, 1911 and
studied law in Guatemala and in Madrid. He has a quick mind and a walth
of native stubbornness and excelled in oratory and sports, becoming
national tennis champion in 1933-34. He married into the prominent Castillo
family of Guatemala and has four children. Cocksure and dominating and
always anxious to impress his listener, he never loses an opportunity to use his
fluent English and otherwise ingratiate himself with his U.S. associates. How-
ever, his petty pride and proneness to take offense quickliy have been the cuase
of some embarrassment to United States customs and other officials. Also,
he is not above inserting an innuendo of threat in order to obtain advantage
in negotiations. While not a member of any particular party and professedly
anticommunist, Toriello publicly upholds his country's extreme social measures.
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IhebssiY Dospateh NO4 212,
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Gemini Asosably?
In contrast with the partial et given l'intsisiontaiolle
to the press on reptPsber lip 1953 (my despatch 11040 212 at
September 4, 1953), the Cluutemalen Delegation to tho lighWh
Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, as
announced officially by the Foreign Office on September 9, ,
contapled A number of extreme leftists who have publicly mani.
fested their eympethy for Gommunist causes, while the re
emderote ncuret, Wq0156 appoinnts had been forecast in local
newspapers did not .poar on ti.? list. In view of the Mate-
malan authoritiesv curreht campaign acainst the Unitedtaboo .
touched off by the Depirtweot's Aide Nemoirs'a Augast .95)
on the expropriatimi of :initf!t:: Yruit Co any property her* 1

despatch Re, 228, .4.1ptvi.,,r.:4, 1953 and ilisylous), it is Ilk
that the 3.w.te7..:53::th Del.c, !?*.o.an wdll be even less cooperative th
the Un.lted Stl:ths that fn tjr. i.lct trid may possibly take the
offer:live ::,i01.1t ".c?1N' ,e.'.' ,t(t: :Intervention in Ouatemalee
interhol offs:Irv" .4
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Assembly at .which the tonal= Delesitiom has bees Mead
by Ambassador. Toriell$. It will be recalled that daring the
last session he attracted.somo ettentio* by his attack SR
United state* press And wire services, 'kith he Pmeribed am
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econtellid concepts ofrads$T0 .wrelations between ereiga
states", and urged 'all quatenalans nto.unite as a s ? mak
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this diftict.hoOte oo
lprott our threatened nat mit .
eavereignty, dignity and Oesaosie indopendenee5(ay telegram
I,. 54 8eptember 40 19,3). While this emotional appeal may
primarily reflect the thinkitg in official circles, Ambassador
Toriolleta personal feelinics towards the United States Clovers..,
went are ;..:robnbly simewhat lees than crirdiil at i.resent.
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to membpre. f our gVjull
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or uctober, 1951 (des.
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Sr. Julio Estrada de la Hoz, a la.mbt.r cf te far leftist
!til1111,"y1,,,?0.4 1:! !2re., ?Lty In Congress
AD s currentJ7 (Itte F:_nance CoxmAttee- His record
of coop On with Com41.4ni!.-t coutes iF extensive that he is
sometiaseiny eferrcd to Fit "Ertrac ie la Hos y Martine'
(igetrada of the Sickle end Hammer). To mentioq but a few items,
ur. Retrials de la Hos is Jona 1952 whOnr,,..rving as President
of the'Quatmilan Congreaz de.;71ort ion of solidarity
with.tbe Korean people ot the c,zrz.r.i,l.n of tile "secomd anniver-
ssry Chine .20 of igvertaUst aggroa-,lon against Korea' which
said that the_Kbreans had been subjected to "the most iafamous
means of mase exterminiAion, Including bacteriological warfare'
(deratch Wo. us, July 10 )90). In Februaluy, 1953 he was a
the Presidium of t!el Commusiat-orgorsed latiomal
C ;-?fv.rto for the Derma? of the Rights of Unth and in *Arch
toic a leading part in organising manifestations or 'madames
on the eseeasfon of Stalls.* death. A tom months before, he had
ettended the Continental Conference of Jurists in Rio de Janeiro
Movemberv.Deesebere 1950* a r;eeting which is understood to
have boon Casimir% iaspired.
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Betreasoto Xgatals moo co1702 ysar. old. Me app.ars to be
part 141117 Pr *Wand is extremely sems tive as
rise cploPlamilii( aly and la personal seavereas
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groups oerg ,411.
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Inform.ition and i-ubltotty of the Presiderfcy, a i_ropaganda .
office roportiw rArottty to ?rnsident Arbenz. In this vivacity,
he hps Waged a vrours 4:wmtui6n on behalf of thu social and
political objectivs! -t vrotent chministr,(tiOn and against
kmeriran 11.14,21nura toi-erov,1 In this country. Ne attended the
Seventh ',.tasion 0,4"- tobaembly ,--ad hence is not Cell???
pietcy -.0 -14. 4- inft PrePtd'ir
3r. Gonsnes Ore1.:KA4 has 17.411 1ab1jjCoismunlat but there
Is ro cnfirnatfory evikunte fox. this al)sgation., It may be
Indicative ti...pt In Octo4w. 1949 trs was -ot,ortedlv a judge in
a...pre-pope literary curutent splaaored by Lhegdgmla
twagrA41 ,agt.t ttn,131sa (A4TV4). a Coalmani Prost
- organ satauno ourtneml Prrvice as (rder .:;ecretary of Educe.,
tion (1949.495)) he cooperi-te4 stesely wit.L the.Cemmumist-sems
trolled teachers 411103 sraG, rut Dt tf.# sios tiL?4 be nes belpm
fnl to this Mission's CuAti_ral Affairs Officer in our Exchange
, Programa? Ni is etronc,ty wpo;o4 t?, t!e Franco regiauf in Spain.
.-2 in simaner-Sr.*Ovrttal Orellana is slid and retiring; his
opoech 10 sometimes alnypA inaudlhlso Desp4s his pressed' peel..
4iem es hoad af tLe Pran4i.z:entia propaganda oftice6 he seems to
- Interest in 1-K11,!1.4,tion all,1 last April privately Az-
?tapir, to it 1,ack. int* ;.he souttitional field. 114
tugs boon mentioned ava ior,sible "Minister of Educatiee Should
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the President dosirs to replace the present incsabent.
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a t 1st ?rathor tha0 a politician. Ms has generally
a.rd. with thi* Ikhasees eaortwale attisars and has me remit
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Division of Biographic Information
CASTILLO Arriola, Eduardo (Lic.)
Personal data: Born in Guatemala, January 5, 19140
Career:
1945-1946
1946-1951
1949
1950
1951
Remarks:
GUATEMALA
Deputy to Congress from Department of Huehuetenango.
Member of National Electoral Board.
Member of Political Committee of Frente Popular
Libertador.
Chairman of Board of Liquidation of War Matters.
Professor international law at Foreign Office
Diplomatic-Consular Institute (from May until Institute's
closure in June);
Chief of Guatemalan delegation to Japanese Peace
Conference, San Francisco;
Delegate, UN Generalviommay, sixth session, Paris,
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A lawyer by profession and comparatively unknown politically, Lic.
Eduardo Castillo Arriola is at present Chief of the_Legal Section of
the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry, although it is understood that he is
to be appointed Guatemalan Permanent Delegate to the United Nations f/1
7/
6 He has been a minor politician of the Frente Popular Libertador
FPL), one of the three left-wing revolutionary (Ar4valo-Arbenz) pro-
government parties, ever since the FPL's formation in 1945, but he him-
self is considered no more than a "moderate leftist" at present, Elected
a member of the FPL Political Committee in 1949, Castillo aligned him-
self with the Committee's leftist pro-Galich faction when the FPL party
leadership split wide open in the presidential pre-electoral period of
mid-1950. 1/, 4/
Lic. Castillo served two terms in Congress as Deputy; At the time
of his first election to the National Legislature in January 1945, a
reliable Embassy contact, requested to comment on the new Deputies'
general character and ability, appraised Castillo as "O.K.". 1/, .a/
It is believed that Castillo will not assert himself in the Assembly
meetings, but will rather echo the stronger member of the Delegation,
Enrique Mu5oz Meany.
OLI:BI:FBoyle:sc
1/ D-1957, Guatemala, January 9, 1945 TC-onfidential)0
2/ D-2206, Guatemala, March 2, 1945 (Unrestricted).
2/ D-179, Guatemala, April 5, 1949 (Restricted).
4/ D-184, Guatemala, August 22, 1950 (Restricted).
T-680 August 22, 1951, Guatemala (Confidential).
2 D-3741 Guatemala, October 10, 1951 (Confidential).
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ESTRADA de la Hoz, Julio
As president of the Congress of Guatemala, 32-year-old Julio
Estrada de la Hoz would be next in line for the presidency of his country
pending special elections if that office were prematurely vacated and the
constitutional age stipulation of 35 years in the case of presidential can-
didates could be circumvented. His congressional term as a deputy in
Guatemala's unicameral legislature, where he has been the leader of
the intellectual, procommunist left, will expire on February 28, 1955.
Estrada de la Hoz is sometimes jokingly referred to as Estrada
de la Hoz y Martillo (Estrada of the sickle and hammer). Although con-
clusive evidence of communist party affiliation on his part is lacking, he
typifies the class of young intellectuals in his country who, with perhaps
more enthusiasm than understanding, have embraced what they conceive
to be a Marxian political and social approach to the problems of Guatemala.
As joint editor of the semiofficial Diario de la Manana, he was known for
his friendly treatment of extreme leftist elements and his great concern
with "imperialism." He countenanced that news organ's strong anti-
American bias and its falsified and distorted news presentation in favor of the
Guatemalan Government. He has been extremely vocal in his bitter and
scathing criticism of American-owned business enterprises operating in
Guatemala. His record indicates that he was seated on the platform at the
first public meeting of the Communist Party of Guatemala in June 1951.
In June 3952, when various leftist organizations in Guatemala observed a
week of solidarity with the "People's Republic of Korea," he was listed as
one of 19 members of Congress who had signed a document expressing
sympathy for "the heroic North Korean people" against whom "the most
infamous means of mass extermination, including bacteriological warfare, "
had been used.
Estrada de la Hoz was educated in Guatemala and Mexico. He has
a law degree, but does not practice his profession. He married a Guate-
malan girl. In April 1949 he completed a year's assignment as press
attache to the Guatemalan Embassy in Mexico City. He became subsecretary
of Communications and Public Works in September '950. An opportunist in
local politics, Estrada de la Hoz transferred his allegiance from the
Revolutionary Action Party to the Guatemalan Revolutionary Party when
the latter was formed in June 1952 as the "single revolutionary party." He
later sought readmission to PAR when the PRG was torn asunder by political
rivalries.
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