Word: tegucigalpa
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McCann is sentimental when he calls Eli Black's suicide and the decline of United Fruit a tragedy. He has fastened onto the right image, but for the wrong people: it is unlikely that many tears were shed in Tegucigalpa. Black's plunge from the Pan American Building was the fall of the patriarch, the bringing to earth of the gods; it marks the era of United Fruit's demythification. This book shows that the times has passed in which the company and its work could only be described in fiction or polemic. It is time for a real historian...
...Honduras, President López, 53, has vehemently denied receiving any bribes, and hastily appointed a blue-ribbon commission headed by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, the republic's capital, to find out who did. Lopez, who overthrew a liberal government in a bloody 1963 coup led by tanks, rules by decree. But lately he has been in political trouble with his own four-man Superior Council of the Armed Forces; two weeks ago, he was abruptly replaced as head of the army by one of his strongest rivals, Colonel Juan Alberto Melgar Castro. The bribery case...
...takeover; Cruz was simply sent home, where he announced that he had known the coup was coming all along. As Honduras' new President for "not less than five years," López must contend this week with a threatened peasants' hunger march on the capital of Tegucigalpa. After that, he is expected to seek a conciliatory meeting with El Salvador's President Arturo Armando Molina...
Because of Hurricane Laura, Finch's plane was diverted from Tegucigalpa, the capital, to San Pedro Sula. No matter. Honduran President RamÓn Ernesto Cruz, accompanied by his entire Cabinet and several cases of vintage champagne, hurried to Honduras' second city to meet Finch there. During a two-hour layover, the reason for all the hospitality became clear. Finch and Cruz signed an agreement under which Washington will cede to Honduras two Caribbean islands that have been U.S. possessions for more than a century...
Died. General Tiburcio Canas Andino, 93, President of Honduras from 1933 to 1948 and stereotype Central American dictator; of a lung infection; in Tegucigalpa. Huge, mustachioed and of Indian descent, Andino was something of a popular hero when he was elected President in 1932. He did achieve a measure of political stability in an unstable country (116 Presidents in 108 years of independence) as well as some economic progress. But his hero image faded swiftly when he began ruling by fiat and filled the prisons with those who protested, all the while illegally extending his term. In 1949, he handed...