Word: ordaz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next stop was San Salvador, where he was almost mobbed by a cheering crowd as he rode along in an open, unprotected car (a rarity for any Latin American President). There, Díaz Ordaz promised technical assistance, preferential tariffs, private Mexican venture capital for developing Salvadoran industries. Also announced: a $6,000,000 loan to the four-year-old Central American Bank in Honduras...
Into Guatemala City's Aurora Airport last week flew Mexico's President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. To the shattering accompaniment of a low-flying formation of Sabre jets, he proclaimed that Guatemala and Mexico, both home to the Maya Indians who pounded corn meal into tortillas, were "brothers in ancient culture, in blood, in language and in our way of life, even to the corn which is the sustenance of our people...
...Ordaz hoped that it meant the beginning of a new era in Mexican foreign relations. After 55 years of a generally prosperous "continuing revolution," Mexico has become the stablest major state in Latin America and an outspoken independent in international affairs. But it has remained largely unconcerned about the five Central American republics south of its border...
Cheering Crowds. When Díaz Ordaz, a conservative onetime backlands attorney, took office a year ago, he decided to initiate a new good-neighbor policy. Last week's state visit, which took him first to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and continues this week in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, was a concrete result. His first communique, issued jointly with the Guatemalans, showed what he had in mind...
With U.S. help, Venezuela's left-of-center Raúl Leoni has built such a prosperous economy that he is considering his own Alianza-like program to help less-developed neighbors. Mexico's strongly independent President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz paid high compliments to U.S. Alianza efforts in his recent state-of-the-nation speech. The U.S. is pushing hard for social reform in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, all run by authoritarian regimes that are not necessarily throwbacks to the old-line oligarchies...