Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army engineers and materials between Miami and Trinidad, and his principal enterprise, TACA, S.A., which covers six of the countries between Mexico and Panama. BWIA was authorized to fly passengers, mail and cargo between Miami and Port-of-Spain, TACA to fly between Miami and San José, Costa Rica...
...Costa Rica's President Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia assured Mr. Wallace that of all visits from foreign greats, "none has been so glorious as yours, due to the fact that you are a fellow citizen of that peerless democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said Henry Wallace, for publication: "I am not a politician...
...United Fruit's troubles are also the troubles of Central America, 80% of whose monthly crop of 100,000 tons of bananas rots in the fields for lack of shipping to the U.S. Broke and disillusioned, the people of five banana-exporting Central American republics (Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras) are now angry at the United Nations' policy that annihilated their chief export but failed to provide them with any other means of employment. The problem is all the more acute since Government revenues, which might be used for unemployment relief, in most cases are largely dependent...
...ingots across the Atlantic, coffee ships are scattered around the world's oceans (or sunk). Central American Governments have not enough revenue to take care of their unemployed plantation workers and stevedores. Their chief hope is finding work in a big hemp-growing project in Panama and Costa Rica started by United Fruit Co. By 1943, 20,000 acres of abandoned banana lands will be planted in hemp with 20,000 additional acres ready...
...hundred years ago broad-shouldered, poker-faced Francisco Morazáán, a fighting man who dreamed of democracy and unity in the corrupt and revolt-torn states of Central America, directed his own death scene. At San José in Costa Rica, Morazán commanded the firing squad which faced him. He corrected the aim, ordered fire, fell, raised his bloody head to order a second volley. He died as great a hero in Central America as Simón Bolivar in South America...