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The U.S. recognized the new government of Panama last week. But, as Secretary of State Dean Acheson implied at his press conference, this merely meant an admission by the U.S. that brazen Arnulfo Arias had caught the brass ring on Panama's political merry-go-round. "The act of...
Critics of the State Department's Latin American policy noted impatiently that its "recognize-and-deplore" formula had given little but cold comfort to democrats in Venezuela, Peru and Colombia. Acheson was aware of the criticism, but he applied the formula again, apparently in an effort to show that...
Using the verb "deplore" once more, Acheson aimed it at Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who had just asked his obedient congress for power to declare war on "any nation," i.e., Cuba, which he suspected of sheltering his foes. Said Acheson: "The government deplores the action of the Dominican Republic...
The statement drew applause from other Latin nations. Even Trujillo's old ally, Nicaraguan Dictator "Tacho" Somoza, spoke up: "Nicaragua knows how to settle its problems with its neighbors through the inter-American peace machinery. It's a shame that the Dominican Republic can't handle its...
All this took place because of an old Spanish custom brought up to date. For years, Venezuelan employers gave their workers a Christmas aguinaldo, an annual bonus, sometimes amounting to as much as two weeks' pay. In 1936, President Eleazar Lopez Contreras turned the aguinaldo principle into law. He...