Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bullfights were the main course. Not traditional bullfights (these had long been forbidden in Costa Rica), but extemporaneous fights that pitted the rangy, long-horned bull against the people in, the ancient Iberian fashion-with the bull almost never getting hurt...
...recent C.T.A.L. conference in Costa Rica, he put over a program favoring protective tariffs for new national industries such as Mexico is developing. And in a speech at Tapachula in October he warned Guatemalan laborites against class warfare orators of the extreme left. "Our tactic is that of national unity," he proclaimed...
...behind on distributing its oil, and in discovering and developing new fields. On distribution, Bermúdez was hamstrung by the sad state of Mexican railways, but he had schemes to overcome that disability. One top-priority project: an $8,000,000 pipeline to bring natural gas from Poza Rica on the Gulf to Mexico City's industries and households. He also hopes to develop new fields that will give Mexico oil for at least 50 years to come. The reported program for 1947: 50 new wildcat wells, compared with 15 drilled in the eight years since the Government...
...week's visit to Panama was one stop on a tour. Haya had already been in Colombia and Venezuela. In Panama, where the university gave him an honorary law degree, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger invited him to lunch at Canal Zone headquarters. Haya would go to Costa Rica and Guatemala. To each country he had an official invitation...
Last night as Marquina, speaking in his native tongue to what he assumed to be 200 Spanish students, stepped to the dais in Agassiz Hall, over 50 members and sympathizers of the University's AYD chapter vociferously made their exit-just short of Marquina's costa Rica vegetable pummeling of three weeks...