Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your March 23, 1962, issue, you ran an article about politics and business in Guatemala that contained innuendoes about President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. I am writing you now because of the impact of that article upon this leader, whose recent publication My War with Communism I have just read...
...think you were unkind and unjust to a leader who, long before the rest of the hemisphere, recognized the malignancy of Communism, and at considerable risk to his own political future allowed Guatemala to be used as a training base for the Bay of Pigs invasion. In the common effort to resist the spread of Castro Communism in Central America, the U.S. had and has no stronger supporter or firmer friend than President Ydigoras Fuentes...
...Guatemala's President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes was ousted by a military junta last spring. Despite the fact that Ydigoras is a long and fervent foe of Communism, the junta saw the possibility that Communists would take over in approaching elections. The new government got quick U.S. recognition and now, with free elections promised, is promoting a string of democratic reforms...
...Hughes Aircraft will probably be the first to explore the moon's surface, and cameras are also reaching far back into the past. A nine-lens aerial spy produced by Itek will soon begin searching out ancient Mayan and Incan ruins in the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala. It will also be used to study the behavior patterns of a timid tribe of Mexican Indians-believed to be direct descendants of the Mayans-by spying on them from...
...late for me, but not for my son," says a Guatemala City market matron. Nicaragua's Emiliano Chamorro, a onetime President (1917-1920), and Augusto Cesar Sandino, a revolutionary general (1926-33), were the sons of market women. Other ladies of the market have seen their sons become doctors, lawyers and army officers. Says a U.S. AID official in Bolivia: "These women have social mobility. They are going to be a strong political force in this country...