Word: yanquis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Figures. Old enough to have fought as a major in the revolution, Ruiz Cortines has made a lifelong career as a bureaucrat. Back in 1914 he worked as a paymaster; one of the charges leveled at him during the recent election campaign was that he had been on the yanqui payroll during the occupation of Veracruz that year by U.S. armed forces. Ruiz Cortines, who refuted the charges, still wears a clerkish air, and takes a bureaucrat's professional pleasure in going through a good statistical report...
Tropical Loma Bonita (pop. 6,000) in the state of Oaxaca is probably the only town in Mexico whose "most beloved citizen" is a yanqui. Peters did not actually found the place, but he did introduce pineapple-growing, which is now the basis of the district's economy. When he arrived in 1906, Loma Bonita was a tiny village, and not a pineapple was to be seen for miles around...
Peters had his downs as well as his ups. Revolutionary forces, considering any yanqui fair game, looted him freely. The depression of the 1930s hit him hard. In 1934, President Cardenas' land-reform program expropriated most of his holdings. Said Peters, philosophically: "The people need the land more than I do." Today his income is $58 a month-just about enough to live on. But if Peters has not continued to prosper, the pineapples have. Cuttings from Peters' original plants now produce 40,000 to 60,000 tons of pineapples a year, supplying four local canning factories...
Venezuela has no unhappy foreign relations. The Communist Party, which has made such strides in other unsmiling nations, is split and largely ineffective. Anti-yanqui propaganda is limited (Venezuela's favorite Americans are baseball players). Of the arts, music is liveliest; Caracas will have 100 concerts this year. There is talk of television in Maracaibo...
...Yanqui inventor claimed credit for having 1) encouraged a 1950 petroleum law allowing foreign oil companies to resume prospecting in Bolivia, 2) arranged for the U.S. to buy Bolivia's strategic tungsten, 3) promoted resumption of payment on $145 million worth of defaulted Bolivian bonds. However others felt, Bolivians thought kindly of the ambassador. Before Florman left last week, they gave him the Order of the Andean Condor, their highest decoration...