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...presidents of Guatemala and El Salvador met, agreed to name three commissioners each (the other republics were invited to do the same) to draw up a plan by next March for closer Central American union. Guatemala's President Juan Jose Arevalo, who had seen his 1945 proposals for customs union stalled by local interests, spoke again for action. "This is the moment for firm decisions," he said, "not half-baked ones...
...Governments invited Costa Rica to join them in doing away with passports for travel between their countries, using a Central American travel card instead. Costa Rica accepted, and Julio Acosta, Minister of Foreign Relations, signed with the Salvadoreans and started for Guatemala City. On his way he read Arevalo's speech, decided that "half-baked" had been aimed at his country. He returned to Costa Rica, leaving the cause of Central American union about where it was. It was the sort of thing that always seemed to keep the five states from getting together...
Almost anyone else would have chosen another time to call on the president of the Bank of Guatemala. Guatemala had that very day threatened to break relations with Britain, which had declined to cede tiny, neighboring, contested British Honduras...
Despite inexperience, shortages, Latin politicking and bacchanalian waste, a major share of the road was laid down, some of it paved. Keeping a weather eye out for tropical rainstorms and stalled oxcarts, Central Americans now drive over most of Guatemala, El Salvador. Honduras and Nicaragua. But U.S. motorists won't get to Guatemala until the Mexicans finish the 420 miles from Oaxaca south to the border. In Costa Rica and in part of Panama, mountain and jungle still stand before giant bulldozers and power shovels. Last fortnight those giants got fresh energy when a new U.S. appropriation...
...disease, called onchocercosis, is apparently of African origin. First found in Guatemala, it spread into Chiapas with migrations of coffee pickers; a smaller outbreak in Oaxaca was attributed to pilgrims who had visited a Guatemalan shrine. The Inter-American highway is now opening the remote region for the first time, and epidemiologists fear that the disease will spread into the rest of Mexico. One fact which comforts Mexican researchers: though the disease has spread through the coffee-growing regions, where peons are mostly undernourished, it seldom attacks healthy, well-fed people...