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Signs of Hope. There was no doubt that the Nixon attacks had a great deal to do with it. Only a fortnight ago, Panamanian President Ernesto de la Guardia managed to halt antigovernment student riots that had been going on for ten days. And only six weeks ago, demonstrating students invaded the U.S. Canal Zone and hoisted Panamanian flags to dramatize sovereignty claims. In Guatemala Communists, once held firmly in check by the late President Carlos Castillo Armas, are again able to cause trouble...
...nothing to eat but cactus, and after five days my mother said she could not go on," recalled Ernesto da Silva, 17, sitting in a rocky field in the drought-burned eastern state of Pernambuco. "She was a widow but not old. She lay down by the road and told me to go. A man gave me 40? for a day's work. I bought food and hurried back to my mother, but when I got there she was dead...
Sirens howling, a motorcycle escort whisked President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines' Lincoln limousine through the gates of Mexico City's presidential residence, Los Pifios, one day last week. With Mexico's Federal District Governor Ernesto P. Uruchurtu tagging along, Ruiz Cortines was out to hang up an unofficial speed record for public-works dedications...
...close terms with Ruiz Cortines, Cardenas and Aleman, but many politicians feel he should wait for 1964. Finance Minister Antonio Carrillo Flores, 48, has masterminded Mexico's phenomenal economic boom, is generally regarded as the Cabinet's most brilliant member, but is not widely known. Ernesto Uruchurtu, 50, a former Interior Minister and now governor of the Federal District, has made fans through his drastic face lifting of the nation's capital (TIME, Aug. 27). None of the six is doing any public campaigning-contemptuously called futurismo in Mexico-but behind closed doors all are hard...
...have particularly wanted to impress was President Ernesto de la Guardia of Panama, currently pondering a U.S. request for Nike antiaircraft missile sites in his country. So far he has asked for more concessions (primarily, a greatly increased share of Canal receipts) than the U.S. is willing to pay. De la Guardia beamed at the smooth-running exercises last week and assured a press conference that continued U.S. operation of the Canal was "not even an issue here." But he said nothing about lowering his price on the Nike bases...