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Jorge Ubico has made Guatemala the glamor girl of the Central American Republics. He has reduced the national debt 50%, has got his paper currency covered 100% by gold, has built and paid for public works. He has granted the Indians property rights, their own courts, their own military uniforms. But taxes are high, and Indians who cannot pay are forced to work their taxes out on Government projects...
Though he loves his own power, he has made love to the ideals of democracy. Diplomats and barefoot peasants drank champagne together on his birthday. On the eve of the Battle of Britain he suspended agitation for return to Guatemala of British Honduras on the ground that no Latin could kick a prostrate...
Venezuela is the only country in the Western Hemisphere that owes no man anything-it has neither external nor internal debt. Since the death of its bloody, carnal 27-year Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez five years ago, it has also been fortunate in its leader. Like little Guatemala's Jorge Ubico tall, scholarly President Eleazar Lopez Contreras has given the nation a decent, liberal, reformist Government. His term ends next April. Constitutionally, he cannot succeed himself. His people find it hard to imagine that he would attempt to do so by any other means. Fortnight ago elections...
...main bout was on the Central American front, where Am Ex bought the Central American line TACA. Pan Am wasted no time in attacking there too. As much at home in palaces as clouds, Pan Am persuaded tough, handsome General Jorge Ubico, Guatemala's Dictator-President, to let it fly in his country, hitherto a TACA demesne. Pan Am immediately formed Aerovias de Guatemala, put big, heavyset, American-born Alfred Denby in charge. Fortune-hunter Denby owns Guatemala's biggest butcher shop, rates high with General Ubico. This month Aerovias, which has been conducting survey flights with sleek...
Thus weakened in Guatemala, TACA lost more face in Costa Rica when one of its planes, on an unscheduled flight, whanged into a mountainside, killing the pilot and five passengers. Hoping the plane had merely made a forced landing in a deserted spot, TACA withheld news of its lateness for several hours. Next morning the San Jose Tribuna printed a scathing editorial, hinted some might have been saved if TACA had reported the missing plane sooner. To make matters worse, TACA's dapper lawyer, Jean La Baron, who constantly puffs on long, thin cigars, was quoted by Costa Rican...