Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average Cuban's monthly rice ration from six to three pounds. Peking's parsimony did not sit well with delegates from other hungry, have-not countries. Meanwhile, the Soviets adroitly outflanked the Chinese with a pledge to support wars of liberation in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Guatemala. Moscow handed out $3,000,000 to Latin American delegates, and even promised Russian advisers for a worldwide "liberation committee...
...Into Guatemala City's Aurora Airport last week flew Mexico's President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. To the shattering accompaniment of a low-flying formation of Sabre jets, he proclaimed that Guatemala and Mexico, both home to the Maya Indians who pounded corn meal into tortillas, were "brothers in ancient culture, in blood, in language and in our way of life, even to the corn which is the sustenance of our people...
Cheering Crowds. When Díaz Ordaz, a conservative onetime backlands attorney, took office a year ago, he decided to initiate a new good-neighbor policy. Last week's state visit, which took him first to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and continues this week in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, was a concrete result. His first communique, issued jointly with the Guatemalans, showed what he had in mind...
...promised to try to correct the imbalance of trade between the two countries (now vastly in Mexico's favor) and to improve roads and telephone connections with Guatemala, while a cultural-exchange program will reconstruct Mayan sites along the border...
...other Latin American countries. In Peru, 2,000 government troops have been chasing 1,300 guerrillas through the highlands for six months. In Colombia, Castro's man is Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, a bandit-turned-Communist who leads 100 guerrillas responsible for dozens of rural murders. In Guatemala, Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a onetime army lieutenant with U.S. training, leads a 150-man band that recently bushwhacked an army patrol, killing two soldiers...