Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Costa Rica's port of Puntarenas, one German and one Italian ship were set afire. Seizure of Axis ships in South American ports was expected momently. Belief spread that the President would shortly announce U. S. convoy (at least halfway across the Atlantic). And no one expected Adolf Hitler to endure such measures without reprisal...
Latin America was threatened by Germany, as it always is when the U. S. does something Germany dislikes. Nonetheless, Latin America was enthusiastic over passage of the bill. Cuba and Costa Rica sent congratulations to the U. S. Congress. In Panama and Nicaragua newspapers praised the Act. In Montevideo El Dia called it a triumph for Britain's cause. In Chile satisfaction was mixed with concern over the threat to Chile's long coast line, if the U. S. should go to war with Japan. Argentine newspapers were enthusiastic, but most of them forgot their enthusiasm when they...
Sixaola, Costa Rica...
...Costa Rica $4,600,000 for her section of the two-lane, concrete-curbed Inter-American highway (connecting San José with the Panama border...
...done U. S. cinema relations with Latin America no good. Latins are largely leery of any kind of propaganda that may give offense to Axis nations. Confessions of a Nazi Spy was banned in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, several Central American countries. Mortal Storm was prohibited in Costa Rica, Guatemala, has not yet been passed in Brazil...