Word: nicaragua
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intervened drastically in the internal affairs of several insolvent Caribbean republics. Three countries were actually occupied and ruled by the U.S. Marines for long stretches of time: the Dominican Republic from 1916 to 1924, Haiti from 1915 to 1934, and Nicaragua almost continually from...
F.D.R. recalled the Marines from Nicaragua and Haiti, toured Latin America, sipped toasts with Latin America's chiefs of state (many of them dictators who had seized office through military coups), preached the new doctrine of Pan-American amity. At the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo in 1933. the U.S. agreed to a resolution prohibiting the nations of the hemisphere from interfe~ing in each other's "internal or external concerns." In later years, the Latins drafted and the U.S. accepted even broader bans on intervention. The current version of the ban. adopted in 1948, declares: "No state...
Many Latin American leaders would welcome, either openly or secretly, just such U.S. action against Cuba. Most of Castro's closest Caribbean neighbors-Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic-have quietly informed the U.S. that they would back a U.S. invasion. Says Peru's Victor Andres Belaunde, former President of the U.N. General Assembly: "The presence of Russian troops in Cuba demands decisive action on the part of the U.S. I don't think Latin reaction to the U.S. action against Cuba will be unfavorable...
Even in Latin America, however, the road to economic union is still potholed. In their own Central American common market, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras have agreed to erase tariffs on 200 items within the past two years, aim for fully free trade with one another and a single external tariff within a decade. A scheme to grant each member a monopoly on producing certain goods has led mostly to shoddier products. Grumped one Guatemalan housewife last week: "I used to pay 35?for a can of imported soup. Now I have to pay 45? for Central American soup...
...like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended before he could kill any Germans. But Puller was soon blooded while fighting bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua, where he was known as El Tigre and won the first of his five Navy Crosses...