Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned a lot about Mexican labor, land, Church, oil and political problems, and about the German colony, "probably the most effective Fifth Column agency in all Latin America." Central America. "One of the most remarkable characters in the Americas" is 63-year-old General Jorge Ubico, Guatemala's "constitutional President" who is "an utterly complete dictator." He keeps Guatemala "as orderly as an empty bil liard table," himself patrols the whole country on a motorcycle. When he finds a lazy official relaxing in an automobile, he takes the car away from him, gives him a motorcycle. "Try this...
...will go to Mexico in the form of a U.S. loan, through the Export-Import Bank. It will be earmarked by the Mexican Government for highway construction and for rehabilitation of the Mexican National Railway system. Still unfinished is the last 850 link (to the border of Guatemala) in Mexico's 1,700-mile stretch of the Pan-American Highway. For this and other road-building projects, the hard-pressed Mexican Government plans to spend altogether $60,000,000. For the railways, Mexico needs a total of $40,000,000. The U.S. considers both these programs important for hemisphere...
Jorge Ubico comes close to being all things to all Guatemalans. He is a radio enthusiast, an amateur photographer, a gadget lover, a motorcyclist, a general in the Army, the official Father of his Country and President of Guatemala. Handsome, ice-eyed President Ubico has proved to his own and most people's satisfaction that he is an able, if high-handed, executive who has halved the national debt, constructed many a road and public building...
...sensational measure, which the House is expected to approve speedily, aroused no controversy at all. The paragon bill simply permitted the U.S. to pay two-thirds of the construction cost of unfinished sections of the Inter-American Highway between Mexico and Panama. The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will pay the other third...
Those who will receive the $500 stipends for the summer in Brazil, Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, or Peru...