Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first voters trooped to polling places to elect Guatemala City's mayor, Humberto Gonzalez Juárez, the official candidate, foresightedly stocked up on Scotch for a victory party. That he might lose was scarcely thinkable; Gonz...
...little nations gave new voice to old complaints. In the Assembly's Trusteeship Committee, Yemen demanded an end to Britain's protectorate over Aden in southern Arabia. Greece called for self-determination for British-held Cyprus (in the hope that it would go Greek). Guatemala wanted Britain to give up British Honduras to Guatemala. Egypt kept up her demand for British withdrawal from the Suez Canal and the Sudan. All the Arab states demanded an end to French rule of Morocco, even though the General Assembly's General Committee had voted against bringing up the subject...
...contracts, Guatemala will insist that the company: 1) pay income taxes equal to those paid by corporations (up to 43%); 2) turn over to the government the country's major ports, which Unifruit built and operates; 3) cut freight rates on the rail network it controls and on the ships of the "Great White Fleet"; and 4) pay higher prices for bananas it buys from independent Guatemalan producers...
Instead of talking about new taxes, Unifruit felt that it needed assurance against extra tax burdens now, and an end to Moscow-wired union squabbles, before it could safely invest the millions necessary to rebuild wrecked Tiquisate. Last week company officials, received by Guatemala's young President Jacobo Arbenz, tried to get such assurance. They did not. Arbenz bounced the issue down to the "ministerial level," where it remained deadlocked...
...United Fruit has to quit in Guatemala, that will liquidate an investment of some $30 million for the parent company in Boston. But for Guatemala's 13,000 best-paid agricultural workers, and for 6,000 best-paid railroad workers, it will be an even greater disaster...