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Into Guatemala City's Aurora Airport last week flew Mexico's President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. To the shattering accompaniment of a low-flying formation of Sabre jets, he proclaimed that Guatemala and Mexico, both home to the Maya Indians who pounded corn meal into tortillas, were "brothers in ancient culture, in blood, in language and in our way of life, even to the corn which is the sustenance of our people...
...sentimental, even corny way to begin the first visit by any Mexican President to Central America, but Díaz...
More often, however, the crowd ignores his faults and cheers him for all it is worth. "The most interesting thing about El Cordobés' bullfights is the crowd," says AntÓnio DÍaz-Cañabate, one of Spain's most fastidious critics. "They don't care at all about bullfighting. They want to go mad in the physical presence of a fetish...
With U.S. help, Venezuela's left-of-center Raúl Leoni has built such a prosperous economy that he is considering his own Alianza-like program to help less-developed neighbors. Mexico's strongly independent President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz paid high compliments to U.S. Alianza efforts in his recent state-of-the-nation speech. The U.S. is pushing hard for social reform in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, all run by authoritarian regimes that are not necessarily throwbacks to the old-line oligarchies...
Sounding remarkably like the President of the country to the north, Díaz Ordaz summed up by telling the Mexican Congress that the government has the "unavoidable obligation to watch over the people of Mexico and the destiny of the Mexican nation...