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...other two: Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein (1968) and Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel...
...resolution was originally proposed by Venezuela in protest against a militant program by Castro and his Minister of Industry, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, of exporting Communist revolution throughout Latin America. Cuban arms and Cuban-trained guerrillas turned up in the 1960s in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Bolivia. But after 1967, when Guevara was killed in Bolivia, Castro muted his once proclaimed role as the "Líder de las Americas. " Today few hemisphere leaders worry that the Cuban dictator will try to interfere in their internal affairs...
...cartel, named Union de Paises Exportadores del Banano (Union of Banana Exporting Countries), was formed by Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. It proposes to slap a $1 export tax on every 40-lb. box of bananas leaving Latin America, 50 times the present 20 tax paid by major exporters. In the U.S., which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
Eric Roth '70 is a Harvard graduate out of work. In the three years since his graduation, he has dug ditches in Minneapolis, built waterbed frames in Berkeley, hitchhiked in Guatemala but has not been able to find a job with the freedom, flexibility and responsibility he wants...
...example, said that he did not intend to discourage all American investment, but only to gain Chilean possession of the country's most crucial businesses and establish firm controls over business practices and profits. U.S. business, through the U.S. government, pressured for political conditions favorable to its interests in Guatemala in 1954, Brazil in 1964, the Dominican Republic in 1965, and recently, in Chile...