Word: guatemala
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...three, an utter stranger apprenticed me to a basket weaver in Guatemala. I soon learned to weave with such dexterousness that, by the time my second teeth arrived, I was known throughout the village as the basket child of Guatemala...
After I was run out of Guatemala, I met two other fellows, named, I believe, Harpo and Chico. After considerable bickering, they convinced me that America, softened up by an excess of rationing, could be persuaded to swallow another dose of Casablanca-this one to be called A Night in Casablanca...
Central American politicos, from the days of William Walker to those of dollar diplomacy, had hatched new revolutions in the musty Vieux Carré. Nowadays Guatemala's ex-Dictator Jorge Ubico, moping in his St. Charles Avenue garden, is about the only political exile left, but Latin America still looks on convenient New Orleans as its cultural and economic beachhead...
Last week this sports renaissance had gone far. Because Honduras had beaten Guatemala in the Central American futbol championship series being played at San José, Costa Rica, futbol-converted Carias ordered church bells rung, proclaimed a three-day national holiday. Dizzy with victory, he offered his tim $1,000 if it won the series. But despite prize money and bell-ringing, Costa Rica came in first, Guatemala second, Honduras fifth...
...Guatemala's Arévalo government also recently introduced a steep profits tax, despite a concession wangled from Ubico forbidding new taxation on United Fruit till 1981. Bargaining is tough. With huge new plantations in the Dominican Republic ready to sprout bananas by 1947, United Fruit can threaten to shut down in Guatemala, as it did in Colombia when disease and the government moved...