Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taxpayers' money." It cited "flagrant" overpayments to contractors, and a wasteful detour in Nicaragua so that the highway might pass property owned by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. It condemned the poor coordination between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Public Roads Administration. In some places in Guatemala, a junketing subcommittee had found, the road was so rough that pigs wore shoes to protect their trotters...
Last week, another American neighbor turned on him. Guatemala refused to accept the ambassador proposed by Trujillo, formally broke relations with the Dominican Republic. Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...
Since February archeologists had been delving into a 30-foot mound in the mountains of Guatemala. This week they announced their prize discovery: "The finest single piece of Mayan jade carving ever found...
...graves were in a mound, one of two dozen on the outskirts of Nebaj, at the end of a winding new road, ten hours from Guatemala City. The local Indians, descendants of the ancient Mayans whose bones rested below, make daily sacrifices of flowers and incense before the mounds, while praying to their curious pantheon: to rain and wind gods of their old faith, and to Dios and Maria of the Catholicism they have since embraced...
...waterfront cafés in New Orleans and Miami, in hotel rooms in Manhattan and Mexico, political exiles were plotting the overthrow of half a dozen governments. The purported plots crossed ideological lines; they were against rightist regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, against leftist governments in Cuba, Guatemala, Venezuela. At hand in the U.S. were stacks of surplus guns, and plenty of adventurers, unemployed fighter pilots, aerial gunners and combat infantrymen who would fight at the drop of a dollar...