Word: honduran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fruits. Their initial goal was to levy a dollar tax on every box of bananas. Ecuador, the biggest producer, dropped out first, and finally only Panama held the line. Honduras agreed to a 25-cent tax. To be sure the agreement would hold, United Fruit paid someone in the Honduran government half of a $2.5 million bribe; soon afterward, a group of young officers overthrew President Lopez Arellano. While the corruption is a classic theme, the fact is that United Fruit had to negotiate under the pressure of a tax on bananas, and in the face of a United Front...
What is a cultivated, conservative man from Metropolitan Mutual doing in a place like that? The fact is that Lambeth is delicious and Muhlbach is bored. He would not put it quite that way but Señor Rafael Lopez y Fuentes, a Honduran diplomat does. Lopez is a captivatingly unctuous minor character whom Lambeth has lightly discarded. He does more than take pleasure in trying to warn Muhlbach about the hazards of playing with wildfire; he takes him to see Double Honeymoon, a porn movie in which the girl has a rather animated part. Only her death (she either...
...investigation into the suicide of United Chairman Eli Black, who swung his briefcase to smash a hole in a window of his office on the 44th floor of New York City's Pan Am Building and then jumped to his death. The disclosure helped bring on a Honduran coup that overthrew the government of President Oswaldo López Arellano...
...Honduras, a six-member committee investigating the bribe concluded that the recipient had been former Economy Minister Abraham Benna-ton Ramos. He and Honduran Chief of State Oswaldo Lopez Arellano were both ousted from office last month in the wake of the scandal...
...military commander in chief since March, is considerably more conservative than the young officers who placed him in power, he is expected to support their economic and social programs, which include some land reform, a limited nationalization of industry and an eventual return to civilian government. As one Honduran politician put it wryly: "I trust Melgar because he will not be able to rule the country. It will be ruled by the armed forces committee...