Word: guatemala
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more than $90 billion in 1964, v. a 1.8% increase the year before. The big gains came from Mexico (up 10% chiefly on a construction boom), Venezuela (up 7.6% on record oil exports) and the nascent Central American Common Market, whose five members-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -averaged a 7% increase. Tugging the figures down were Brazil, which gained only 1.4% because of inflation; Uruguay, which gained only 1.1% thanks to a stagnating economy; and Panama, whose gross product decreased 1.5% owing to a multitude of woes...
...GUATEMALA, Castroite terrorists have been exploding bombs, killing policemen and invading small towns with worrisome frequency. The latest outrage was the machine-gun murder two weeks ago of the country's Vice Minister of Defense. Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, head of the country's two-year-old junta, has declared a state of siege, and is considering postponing the presidential election promised for fall...
Grace has purchased two Dutch chocolate producers, a dairy company in Ireland and a general food company in Guatemala, increased the production of its biscuit, candy and sugar companies in Latin America. Food sales, which accounted for only 4% of Grace's revenues in 1962, reached...
...those were relatively innocent days, especially in so far as recognition of the hemispheric aims of international Communism was concerned. In the early 1950s, when a Red regime took over Guatemala, the OAS contented itself with only, a tentative step toward meeting the Communist threat. Adopted at the OAS's 1954 conference in Caracas, at John Foster Dulles' urging, was this resolution: "The domination or control of the political institutions of any American State by the international Communist movement, extending to this Hemisphere the political system of an extracontinental power, would constitute a threat to the sovereignty...
...been chasing them through the interior without notable success. Colombia's even more expert army no sooner cleaned out the country's bandits than a pair of Castro-style guerrilla bands cropped up in the same Andean hills. There have been reports of Communist guerrillas in Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, Brazil?and of course the Dominican Republic, for which Castro has a special affinity. Way back in September 1947 Fidel himself, then a student, was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to launch a 1,100-man invasion force from Cuba...