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...Mexico City's Central airport blocked by armed airport guards. Reason: the Ministry of Communications and Public Works had refused Braniff's application for five air routes, had canceled the temporary permit under which the company had been operating in competition with Pan Am's affiliate, Compaña Mexicana de Aviación, S. A. Said the ministry: a "technical study" had shown that present service by C.M.A. in Mexico was entirely adequate, therefore no competition was necessary...
Swarthy, round-faced Mr. Dodero has the cash to back his ambition. Montevideo-born, he went to Buenos Aires and, when he was 15, got a job with a river boat company. Fifteen years later, he bought the controlling interest in the line. In 1942, Dodero founded Compaña Argentina de Navegación Dodero, which now operates a fleet of 333 ships. Last year war cargoes brought Dodero's company 19 million pesos profit...
...this route Braniff paralleled a service long operated by Pan Am's Mexican subsidiary, Compañia Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A., which protested loudly against the operating permit granted to Braniff by the Minister of Communications. When protests failed, C.M.A. resorted to deeds. The resulting intercompany battle that marked the first round-trip Braniff flight from Mexico City to Merida was in the best swashbuckling tradition of business below the border...
...comparison, the story of the first U.S. ventures, involved in the tangle of airmail contracts in the U.S.. embittered by perplexing fights over routes, makes chastening reading for Americans. A few people-Elmer Faucett of Compaňia de Aviación Faucett and Hugh Wells of Cóndor Peruana de Aviación-challenged the European combines. The German stranglehold was broken when Axis airlines were nationalized by Latin American governments in the past two years. And now, says Aviation Assistant Burden, in cautious language: "The airplane promises to give Latin America a semblance of physical unity...
...crumb popped into Pan Am's mouth: one of the five companies favored was Compañia Nacional Cubana de Aviacion, which Pan Am owns. The other two companies: Expreso Aereo Inter-Americano, S.A., for service between Miami and Havana; and Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM), Miami to Curaçao and Aruba...