Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Guatemala have forced out Cuban envoys or broken off diplomatic relations. Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo warned that he would break relations "with any state which tries to utilize diplomatic privileges to inflict damages on us." Peru summoned the OAS to consider Red infiltration into the Hemisphere (see The Americas...
Rubottom's successor will be Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Thomas C. Mann. He has served as embassy counselor in Guatemala and Ambassador to El Salvador. He is credited with drawing up the plan for U.S. participation in the international coffee agreement...
...cobblestone streets of Tegucigalpa. Honduras; the weary bell of the city's crumbling, weather-stained cathedral gives out a few clunks, and toothless crones in black shawls shuffle inside. In Managua, Nicaragua, scrawny men, their shirttails out, flop gratefully in shady places in the plazas. In El Salvador, leaving some ornate mansion, a member of one of the 14 families that run the country glides by limousine to his club for an afternoon of bridge high above the sewer stink of acres of shacks. But before and after siesta time, the five sleepy nations of Central America are stirring...
...this market and to pool resources for overall development, the five nations agreed in 1951 to a progressive freeing of trade. Last year they standardized import duties on 5% of their imports, thereby built a Central America-wide protective tariff wall around these items. Early this year El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, each under heavy pressure at home to speed development, met to form a Central American "inner three." They agreed to shoot for a customs union in five years...
Capital Confusion A muscular dystrophy victim named Renato Ruieroz made the 800-mile trip from Rio by wheelchair, and arrived in time. A relay of athletes ran a flaming torch from Salvador, 1.800 road miles away, as 100,000 Brazilians converged last week to hear President Juscelino Kubi-tschek proclaim: "I declare inaugurated under the protection of God the city of Brasilia." President Dwight Eisenhower, like dozens of other heads of state, cabled his congratulations "on the splendid pioneering spirit of Brazil...