Word: yanquis
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...dispute, of course, gave agitators a fine anti-Yanqui talking point; in one demonstration, 4,000 campesinos marched noisily past Mexicali's U.S. consulate, carrying a coffin covered with salt. Realizing that the U.S. was vulnerable under international law, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson pressed hard for a solution. Under the new agreement-not a formal treaty -the U.S. will spend $5,000,000 to build a 13-mile drainage canal that will divert the salty water from the Wellton-Mohawk project into the Colorado River at a point safely below the Mexican Dam. If pollution remains dangerously high...
...came boiling down Panama City's Avenida Central last week, howling anti-Yanqui slogans on its way to the U.S. Canal Zone. It was the anniversary of the violent riots that killed 21 Panamanians and four U.S. soldiers in January 1964. But this time 100 troopers of Panama's tough Guardia Nacional stood near the zone border. When the riot-minded students and professional leftists came into range, the guardsmen laid down a tear-gas barrage, then expertly dispersed the crowd. Within 45 minutes it was all over, and Panama had passed a milestone of sorts...
...million in 1962. The foreign investors who might have helped stayed away-which was hardly surprising, with student riots in Guatemala City and grumbling peasants in the countryside. Then, in mid-1963, Juan José Areválo, 60, Guatemala's Communist-coddling onetime President (1945-51) and Yanqui baiter (The Shark and the Sardines), was allowed to return to stand for election. That was the final straw...
Best of Both Worlds. Some Latin Americans sneer at the success, accuse Muñoz of running a sugar-coated Yanqui labor colony, swapping independence for U.S. dollars. Puerto Ricans know better. They are fiercely proud of their "Spanishness" and regard their unique commonwealth status in "free association" with the U.S. as the best of both worlds. Under the 1951 compact with Congress, Puerto Rico lies somewhere between a territory and a full-fledged state. The U.S. protects the island, and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens-though they pay no federal taxes...
...city dwellers, illiterate back-country peasants. Among his strongest allies are Chile's 30,000 card-carrying Communists and their followers. He openly calls himself a Marxist, once termed Castro a "political genius," keeps Fidel's picture on his office wall and a blowup of the anti-Yanqui Declaration of Havana just outside the door...