Word: costa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolivia, then in the throes of a historic revolution that dispossessed the rich of land and tin mines. In a filthy brown jacket, stained necktie and scuffed shoes, Che became a member of a group of coffeehouse leftists. He went on to Peru, Ecuador, Panama and finally to Costa Rica, a democratic haven for exiles from all over Latin America. Among them were five or six young Cubans who had been led in an attack on a Santiago barracks by a beardless young rebel named Fidel Castro on July 26, 1953-an anniversary that Fidel Castro celebrated last week...
...Windfalls. U.S. growers may provide an extra 200,000 tons as their share of the divvy. Quota nations other than Cuba will also get increases. They may range from 7,000 tons for such small quota countries as Costa Rica and Haiti to nearly 80,000 tons for the Philippines. Mexico. Peru and the Dominican Republic will get windfalls. The Mexicans now hope to provide up to 200,000 tons v. their present 65,000. The Dominican Republic, where Dictator Trujillo controls the sugar industry, expects a windfall of about 200,000 tons, and Panama will increase its quota from...
President Mario Echandi, 44, of Costa Rica, is far ahead of the rest, mostly because of a head start. Coffee-based Costa Rica was settled by an industrious Spanish middle class of artisans, farmers and shopkeepers, forced to do their own work after warfare and disease wiped out the Indians who provided indolent grandees with slave labor throughout the rest of Central America. Now it is the isthmus' most prosperous, democratic, law-abiding and literate country. It has the only siz able middle class. Proudly it shuns militarism. Echandi. who recently sold off most of the country...
Closest behind Costa Rica is Guatemala, which has the most heavy Mayan population in Central America. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes has succeeded a pair of abbreviated administrations-the Communist-infiltrated regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954 by Carlos Castillo Armas with U.S. help, and Castillo Armas' corrupt regime, cut off by an assassin's bullet. With quiet humor and calculated eccentricity, President Ydigoras. 64, has made himself a popular figure. Refusing to live in the presidential palace, he has installed himself-along with a twittering aviary, a pet deer and a dwarf footman-in a remodeled museum...
...even Betancourt escaped Cuba's wrath last week. Over the Eastern Radio Network, Castro's leading commentator, José Pardo Llada, called Betanceurt "vacillating," a "democratic anti-imperialist, but not much," "revolutionary, but not much." And that, said Pardo Llada, goes as well for former Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...