Word: guatemalan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houston group with the backing of Shell interests, Breaux Bridge received a concession in 1958 to set up a $5,000,000 refinery-Central America's first-on Guatemala's Caribbean coast. Not long after construction began, Ydigoras personally issued an order that, in effect, forbade all Guatemalan consulates abroad to approve any shipping documents for Breaux. Breaux appealed to the Supreme Court, a tribunal capable of independence, and won an injunction. When the company began laying pipeline to the docks of Puerto Barrios three miles away, the President showed up at the construction site, delivered a threat...
...Mexico, income from real property is taxexempt; stockholders are not required to register stock by name, thereby making it easy to evade the comparatively low 15% tax on dividends. Guatemala and Paraguay, both sorely in need of development funds, have no income taxes, although Guatemalan President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes is trying to push one through Congress. Colombia does not tax capital gains. While the U.S. levies a maximum income tax of 91% on top-bracket citizens, maximum taxes on Latin Americans average...
...Communist treatises on guerrilla warfare, proved himself a troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing.") Che's own opening speech was a 2½-hour diatribe against the U.S. (which he called "the monster"). Then he turned around, became the picture of reason and light, said...
...Message to Stanislav. The moon is red." These are the words that came across the air to Guatemala on D-day-plus-one. We all felt as though we were on a sinking ship; Cuba was going to be lost. I, as an American citizen married to a Guatemalan, would have a lot of explaining...
...Revolutionary Council, only the ambitious Artime agreed with the Pentagon-CIA decision to invade immediately. ("He's my golden boy," a top-level CIA man said.) Artime agreed that something had to be done or morale among the Cubans, chafing under discipline in the Guatemalan camps, would begin to deteriorate. He also agreed that time would only favor Castro, enable him to root his dictatorship even more firmly in Cuban soil. When President Kennedy also agreed on the timing, it was Artime who was permitted to break the news for the new Cuba, while his fellow council members-including...