Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the trouble involved the dictator-ridden Dominican Republic. Haiti's spokesman before the O.A.S. charged that the Dominicans, while raising a hue & cry about Cuban and Guatemalan plots against themselves, had actually been hatching a plot of their own against neighboring Haiti. The scheme, uncovered late last month, called for the murder of Haitian President Dumarsais Estimé and other high Haitian officials and-to provide a reason for indignation-the burning of the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince. In the ensuing panic, Dominican troops under the renegade Haitian colonel, Astrel Roland (TIME, Feb. 21), were...
...government-owned farm in Guatemala one day last week, Dr. William Cowgill (rhymes with low bill) picked a heaping basketful of coffee cherries. The cherries came from one of the trees that Cowgill, as chief of the coffee section of the joint U.S.-Guatemalan agricultural development project, had carefully tended for nearly four years. When the cherries were beaten, washed, dried, scraped, and reduced to cafe en oro (the exportable bean), visiting coffee planters could hardly believe their eyes. From the same species of tree, Coffea arabica, they-and most other Latin American producers-had seldom harvested much more than...