Word: costa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jose, Costa Rica...
...Teeming shanty towns, about 200 in number, they spot the city's steep hills, shelter its slippery underworld. The Pépé le Moko of the favelas is a little man (5 ft. 2 in., 105 Ibs.) who says his real name is João da Costa Rezende but who is better known as Carne Séca, or Dried Meat...
...hung from every window and door in town. Despite frequent showers, hundreds knelt in prayer before the padlocked church. Only a week before, thieves had broken into the basilica of Cartago, 15 miles from San José, murdered a guard, and stolen the jewel-decked, five-inch image of Costa Rica's patroness, Our Lady of the Angels. With it, they had taken $185,000 worth of gold and jewels belonging to the church...
...over the country, customarily cheerful ticos were wrapped in deepest gloom. "The Most Sacred Little Black One," said by tradition to have been given by the Virgin to a negro slave girl at the site of the basilica more than 300 years ago, is Costa Rica's most venerated relic. Costa Ricans took what hope they could from the old legend that the image had disappeared once before in colonial days, only to turn up again...
Forbis, who had planned to go to Costa Rica to file his story, dropped by the cable office before leaving. To his astonishment, he found that all press messages could go out freely. After the operator had dispatched Forbis' copy, he asked what had happened. The manager told him that he had been visited by Somoza's chief aide and censor, and that the conversation had gone as follows: "From now on nothing is to be censored. That is, unless it seems to be critical of General . . . No, nothing at all is to be censored...