Word: guatemala
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...Argentina. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela...
...spent six months of 1932 in the village of Santa Eulalia, Guatemala, in the heart of a remote mountain section so completely cut off from the world that no piece of news either of the outside world or even of the Republic of Guatemala filtered in to us, save only the one appalling story of the Lindbergh tragedy. The life was a lonely and fatiguing one, and I felt as completely severed from the world I knew as though I had been translated like Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee completely out of my own century into some remote period...
...know that two states of the Republic of the United States are deprived of a majority of the privileges enjoyed by the 42 others. They are the States of Newfoundland and Guatemala...
...years old. Victor Cutter was opening new tropical divisions for United Fruit. Samuel Zemurray, Polish-Jewish immigrant who out of his savings as a fruit jobber in New Orleans had formed Cuyamel Fruit & Steamship Co., was trying to wrest control of the Caribbean Sea from United. They clashed in Guatemala when each backed a different country in the dispute, not yet settled, over the Guatemalan-Honduras boundary line. They clashed in Honduras when United invaded the country Mr. Zemurray had made his own through a $200,000 revolution. Mr. Cutter, smooth-haired Dartmouth graduate, was replacing tropical tramps...
...Since tariffs have practically eliminated profits from Cuban sugar and Depression has shrunk the profits of the 98 steamships of the Great White Fleet, nearly all the company's revenue has come from bananas, more than half of which the company raises itself on its plantations in Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, Colombia. Last year's shipments were about 50 million bunches, ten million less than in 1931, which were five million below 1930. Throughout the plantations on the Caribbean Mr. Zemurray has replaced many United Fruit men with veterans of his Cuyamel...