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...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...
...slatternly Mexican border town of Tapachula had spruced up for the occasion. At the airport, under a brassy sun, Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho and Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo slapped each other's broad backs in warm Latin embrace. Their wives embraced also (see cut). Never before had Mexico's relations with its southern neighbor been so cordial...
...With no companions but two stocky, middle-aged (15 and 16) Argentine Criollo horses, "thoroughbred in nothing except courage," Tschiffely headed north. Gato (the Cat), Mancha (the Stained One) and their master were two and a half years on the road. Gato came down with an infected leg in Tapachula, Mexico, had to be shipped to Mexico City by rail, but Mancha and Tschiffely made the whole trek (except for a short boat-ride from Cartagena to Colon, another around revolutionary Nicaragua) under their own power...