Word: guatemala
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...thumbprint is somewhere in the overthrow of Guatemala's Jacobo Arbenz, an open Communist sympathizer and another destabilizing force in the fragile years after World...
...asthma and walked the length of the South American continent, working for a time as a doctor in a Peruvian leper colony, and then as a sort of itinerant medic in the northern countries of the continent. What he saw made him angry, and soon he left for Guatemala, to join in the revolution there. It was soon put down by CIA-backed counter-revolutionaries, and Che would barely escape with his skin, to Mexico. His awareness now awakened, the young physician studied political theory there, and met a man named Fidel Castro...
Bellamy served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala and after getting her law degree from N.Y.U., joined the Wall Street megafirm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Elected to the senate in 1972, she got involved with the city's financial plight by chairing the Democratic task force on the crisis. Bellamy, 35 and unmarried, is eager to get on with the job. "I worry about my intensity," she says, "but government is the critical element in our lives...
...example, malaria cases rose from 7,503 in 1974 to 30,289 in 1975 and 48,804 in 1976. El Salvador, poorest and most densely populated of the Central American republics, was stricken with a rise from 66,691 cases in 1974 to 83,290 in 1976. Nicaragua and Guatemala have also reported significant numbers of new cases...
Carter's early forcefulness on the human rights issue drove six Latin countries -Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and Brazil-to reject U.S. military assistance rather than agree to prepare "report cards" for Washington on human rights. The Administration hopes to keep relations from deteriorating further-without, however, backing off on human rights entirely. Thus Todman was to shore up relations with the continent's right-wing military regimes, while Derian would press Carter's human rights campaign with civic leaders and government officials. In what was seen as an important move to improve relations with...