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...Boston last week, company officials maintained official silence. Though armed with a working contract running till 1988, they had agreed to revisions when Figueres held office the first time in 1948. When measured against the slam-bang attitude of Guatemala's Red-led land reformers, the Figueres approach practically reeked of sweet reasonableness. But the fact remained that any new deal in Costa Rica would surely set the pattern for future negotiations over Unifruit's important holdings in Honduras and Panama...
...sunny Guatemalan town of Escuintla (pop. 31,000) last week chose as their mayor a candidate who was in faraway Moscow on election day. The absentee mayor-elect, Gabriel Carney, had not bothered to campaign for votes-that would have cut into his trip behind the Iron Curtain with Guatemala's Communist Boss Jose Manuel Fortuny. But he headed the local Labor (Communist) Party ticket, and the tightly organized slaughterhouse workers of Escuintla voted him into office...
Elsewhere, municipal elections also registered rising popular strength for the Reds. Until recently, Guatemala had only 536 people as card-carrying Communists; the Reds were content to win their political victories by infiltrating other parties of the government coalition, which is consistently proCommunist. For last week's elections, the Red party offered candidates in four towns, thus opposing various combinations of other coalition parties, and the anti-Communist opponents of the government as well. Running under their own colors, the Reds won three towns...
...lure U.S. tourists scared off by its growing reputation as a center of Communist influence. Guatemala this year decided to stage a lavish international fair. Jorge Toriello, a high-powered businessman who backs the regime, was put in charge with $1,080,000 to spend. Promising the republic a gambling casino, horse races, Miami-style dog racing, Ferris wheels, a roller-coaster and a brand-new bullring, Toriello pitched right...
Abroad he laid out $100,000 for publicity, including $30,000 for full-page ads in the New York Times ("Guatemala-Panorama of Progress"). In the capital's Aurora park he set thousands of masons and carpenters working to finish the fair for last week's grand opening. But heavy rains and the breakdown of the country's only cement plant were too much for even the protean Toriello. On the day the show was to open with a bigtime bullfight, featuring bulls and toreros imported from Spain and Mexico, the new bull ring was not ready...