Word: inter-american
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...opening new producing regions, the inter-American highway is revolutionizing Central American economy. In Costa Rica, peons are burning down primeval forest to make way for cornfields. In Nicaragua, rich cattle, sugar and tobacco regions are being brought next door to consumers. And there are political possibilities: once the six now-isolated Central American republics are joined by the new highway, the century-old dream of a Central American Federation might come true...
...disease, called onchocercosis, is apparently of African origin. First found in Guatemala, it spread into Chiapas with migrations of coffee pickers; a smaller outbreak in Oaxaca was attributed to pilgrims who had visited a Guatemalan shrine. The Inter-American highway is now opening the remote region for the first time, and epidemiologists fear that the disease will spread into the rest of Mexico. One fact which comforts Mexican researchers: though the disease has spread through the coffee-growing regions, where peons are mostly undernourished, it seldom attacks healthy, well-fed people...
MOSCOW--Soviet newspapers charged today that the Bikini atom bomb experiment had been an aggressive act and the United States was trying to subjugate Latin American countries with its Inter-American defense plan and an upsurge in economic penetration...
...good-neighborly schemes are not tainted with boondoggling. One such scheme clicked smartly last week: the Peruvian Government was so pleased with the Inter-American Development Commission's job in creating a local crafts industry that it took over the project, lock, stock & barrel. What's more, it would undertake to repay development costs...
...Secretary of State for Latin American affairs, had his work cut out for him. He not only had to repair neighborly relations. He had to get the jaunty Strong Man to abolish Nazi influence in Argentina, and to give real guarantees of good faith before the U.S. signs any inter-American defense treaty with him. But Messersmith sniffed success: the Argentine Government had finally got round to raising the state of siege and restoring the civil liberties that had been in suspension-with two brief exceptions-since right after Pearl Harbor...