Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Costa Rica. A rustic democracy fit to gladden Thomas Jefferson's heart...
Southern Democrats? The U.S. people like to believe that the whole Western Hemisphere is safe for democracy. The fact is that, with a few such exceptions as Uruguay, Chile and Costa Rica (the list is always subject to change), most Latin American countries are not democracies in the sense understood in the U.S. The notion that they are is an illusion fostered during World War II under the Good Neighbor policy...
...Chile). Most of their caudillos, their strong men, have come from the army. Currently, military men preside over eleven Latino governments. Instead of confining themselves to the job of defending their country, Latin American militarists are entrenched as "the only well-organized political party" in every country except Costa Rica, Uruguay, Chile and perhaps Colombia. In many countries, the army consumes an inordinate share of the national income, and fosters the belief that it alone is fit to rule. It was armed power that put Batista back in Cuba. Other men had the votes; he had the guns...
They all went on to Guatemala City, where MaCoy went to work for a Spanish-language newspaper, then started his own newspaper, before becoming part-time correspondent for TIME. When TIME assignments began taking him away on frequent trips to El Salvador, Honduras, British Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, he gave up his newspaper...
...week, when it seemed that the Gómez scandals had long since become nothing more than talk for oldtimers, there came a faint but ringing echo from the regime of rape and rapaciousness. A shrunken man in his 70s stood before a court in law-abiding San Jose, Costa Rica, and paid a fine after conviction on a morals charge involving minor girls. The culprit was sick and lonely but no down & outer. An arrogant sybarite, wealthy from U.S. investments, with a fierce, bristling mustache, he gave his name to the court as Santos Matute...