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Some Cubans talked even more frankly. Senator "Eddie" Chibás charged that President Grau San Martin and his Army chief had double-crossed the expeditionaries. Certainly Cuba's Government-and Venezuela's and Guatemala's-had originally backed the filibuster. Last summer the invaders learned military drill on Cuban Government school grounds at Holguín, in eastern Cuba. Down to last week, Grau's close friend, Education Minister José Aleman, had kept many of them on his departmental payroll. His department put up most of the $1,500,000 expedition costs...
...Here in Mexico City, occupying 45 chairs in as many different cafes on any given day, are the 45 generals who used to command Ubico's army in Guatemala. They have an odd habit of snorting through their noses as they tell you what they will do to the current Guatemalan Government once they get arms...
After the war, Canada went all-out to cultivate South America. Most-favored-nation trade agreements with Latin American countries were extended to a total of 16. By May of this year, there were Canadian Trade & Commerce Department offices in Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Peru. Canadian investments south of the Rio Grande, principally in mining, oil and public utilities, now total some $150 million.† Canadian banks and insurance companies are pushing business with the Latinos...
...Cubans out for adventure and a chance to strike at dictatorship. Some may have been Communists; some were Communism's most ardent enemies. But there were also Dominicans. For weeks Dominican exiles had been trickling into Havana, by plane and boat from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Guatemala. Something was up, and that something was a filibuster in the romantic Caribbean's best tradition...
...taxpayers' money." It cited "flagrant" overpayments to contractors, and a wasteful detour in Nicaragua so that the highway might pass property owned by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. It condemned the poor coordination between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Public Roads Administration. In some places in Guatemala, a junketing subcommittee had found, the road was so rough that pigs wore shoes to protect their trotters...