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...Uruguayan ports and airfields as first-line refueling and supply bases. All that remained was for Dr. Ruiz and Uru guay's Foreign Minister Alberto Guani to agree on an equally ingenious formula to get new bases built with U.S. money without raising cries of Yanqui Imperialism...
...last week the opposition to the Avila Camacho counterrevolution had become both vocal and violent. Since the new President's inauguration a steady stream of Nazi agents has filtered into the country. Last week Nazis and Communists were distributing pamphlets denouncing the "counter-revolution backed by Yanqui Imperialism." The Government had to call out police armed with rifles and tear gas to keep an eye on the demonstration in Mexico City...
...became concerned with defense of the hemisphere, it has tried to promote the building of naval and air bases in Uruguay to protect the River Plate-and with it the whole rich east coast of South America. But Argentina's pride and the bugaboo of Yanqui Imperialism have operated against a U. S.-Uruguay deal...
Argentina. Wariest of all is balky, recalcitrant Argentina, the bad boy of Pan-Americanism. Though linked by cultural and historical ties to its Yanqui neighbor to the north, Argentina would rather manage the southern theatre itself, has a dread of U. S. dominance...
Sandino and train a native national guard, young Somoza got on so well with the visitors that he was nicknamed "El Yanqui." In 1933 when the Marines left, Anastasio Somoza, then 38 and his country's Foreign Minister, became commandant of the Marine-trained Army. Three years later he used it to run his wife's uncle, President Juan Bautista Sacasa, out of the country. He had himself elected President in due constitutional style, then resigned, rewrote the constitution, got re-elected in new style for an eight-year term. Thus neatly sidestepped were all objections from such...