Misty-eyed defenders of Guatemala's party-lining government regularly point out that, after all, there are really only four Communists among the country's 64 Congressmen. But does that modest statistic truly reflect the extent of Communist penetration and power? Not by the length of Marx's beard—as two deputies to Congress demonstrated last week.
One of them was Francisco Fernandez, boss of the majority party in Congress, the Revolutionary Action Party (PAR), which elected President Jacobo Arbenz. PAR is moderately leftish, and "Paco" Fernandez is supposed to be no worse than a dilettantish fellow traveler.
One afternoon Paco rose in Congress and said a...
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