Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last two years? Was it comic-opera intrigue and filibustering? Or blood-serious plotting for revolution and war? Last week, in an18,000-word report, the fact-finding committee set up by the Organization of American States gave its answer: it accused the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Guatemala of conspiring against each other and their neighbors, of gambling recklessly with peace in the Caribbean...
...Haitian government that the Dominican Republic had helped organize a plot to overthrow the regime of President Estime last December, the committee thundered: "The Dominican Republic has been guilty of tolerating, instigating, aiding and fomenting subversive movements against other governments." But so had Cuba and Guatemala. Both governments at one time had harbored armed groups, "animated by the unconcealed purpose of overthrowing the government of the Dominican Republic...
Other countries with such facilities are: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany (American, British, and French zones), Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Israel...
Other countries with such facilities are: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany (American, British, and French zones), Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Israel...
Most coffee planters-"there are no coffee growers," says Cowgill-plant the trees and leave the real production problems to their poorly paid help, who simply follow tradition. In Guatemala, the tradition was set about 50 years ago in a handbook written by an Englishman after a three-week tour of Central America. Its main recommendation to coffee planters: plenty of shade (from other taller trees) and 12-ft. spacing between the coffee trees. Though his experiments are not yet conclusive, Cowgill believes that the elimination of shade would increase production. His experiments also indicate that the number of coffee...