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Legitimate Depression. In Guatemala, the newspaper El Imparcial recorded what it called some "depressing" statistics: "In the maternity wards of the hospitals throughout the Republic there was in the year 1946 a total of 2,327 births; of these, 2,219 belonged to bachelor mothers...
...most socialized country in the Western Hemisphere is the Central American Republic of Guatemala. It is also one of the few Latin American republics (according to New York Timesman W. H. Lawrence-TIME, Jan. 13) without a formal Communist party. Guatemala's socialism started by accident of war. Today one-third of its agricultural produce is grown on land operated by the Government. The land-comprising one-fourth of the country's best plantations-fell under state control when the Government expropriated the German plantations...
Last week, tending his coffee plants in the shade of the banana trees, the average Guatemalan peon knew little enough of these facts. True, he had not seen a blond, German-speaking finquero in years, but the finquero had lived in Guatemala City and Juanito had seldom seen him anyway. More money jingled in Juanito's pocket (his wages were recently hiked from 5? to 50? a day), but higher prices had just about canceled out the raise. He had heard that model government houses, of cement and adobe, might soon be built on his finca. But his boss...
Thus, last week, the "spiritual socialist" President, who would have been lots happier teaching school, went right on managing Guatemala's accidentally socialist state-subject, of course, to the Army...
...Guatemala persuaded Salvador to take...