“Arévalo would like to make Guatemala a democracy like the United States, a country he admires and considers a model. Dreamers are dangerous, and it is in this sense that Dr. Arévalo is dangerous. His project has not the least chance of being realized. How can you turn a country of three million inhabitants, most of them illiterate Indians who have just emerged from paganism or are still in the grips of it, where there must be three or four shamans for every doctor—how can you turn such a place into a modern democracy? A place where, moreover, a white minority made up of racist landowners and
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