Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profits to help fight poverty (TIME, March 6). Gradually, the Americans are turning over their jobs to Venezuelan volunteers and to slum leaders themselves. Says Blatchford: "That's what we want to do-work ourselves out of jobs." They may not get the chance. Already communities in Brazil, Nicaragua, Bolivia and the Philippines are asking for ACCION...
...Leader Mike Mansfield proposed that the U.S. and Mexico join with other maritime nations in building the canal. But Mexico's initial reaction was cool. At that, a Tehuantepec canal would be the longest and most expensive to dig, costing $2.3 billion and requiring 815 nuclear explosives. The Nicaragua-Costa Rica route would cost less ($1.9 billion), but raises all sorts of political problems by crossing two countries. Another surveyed route, at the Atrato and Truando rivers of north west Colombia, could be excavated with 610 nuclear charges at a cost of $1.2 billion-and perhaps would raise fewer...
...Nicaragua, although it has an elected President, is run by the U.S.-inclined Somoza family, which owns outright a great part of the nation...
...taken over Guatemala. The State Department began its strategy-to isolate the country under the Rio Treaty. But at the same time the Central Intelligence Agency plunged ahead with a plot to back an armed assault on Arbenz' gang by Guatemalan exiles from neighboring Honduras and Nicaragua. Mann was summoned from Athens for a consultation, heard both plans, favored the CIA. "I was an activist in that case," he recalls. A short time later, the U.S.-backed exiles stormed into Guatemala City, ousted Arbenz...
...some places, they already have been. In 1920, when Guatemalan Dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera was over thrown, market women joined the mob that lynched several of his Cabinet ministers. In 1954 they staged demonstrations that helped bring down the Communist Arbenz regime. In Nicaragua, one Nicolasa Sacasa leads a strong-armed squad of market women in battles against opponents of the Somoza family. And aspiring politicians, far and wide, pay court to the market woman, hoping that she will pass along a favorable word with the groceries...