Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson mentioned four possible sites -all of them publicly discussed on earlier occasions-for a sea-level canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific without need of locks. One is a 95-mile route in northwest Colombia, another a 168-mile route slicing through Costa Rica and Nicaragua: the remaining two are in Panama itself-one running 60 miles through the southern Darien wilderness and the other, the present 51-mile waterway, which would need considerable widening and deepening to eliminate the locks. Johnson gave no hint as to which route the U.S. preferred, saying only, "I have asked...
Counting the brutal dictatorships in Cuba and Haiti and the more or less benevolent ones in Paraguay and Nicaragua, 13 of the Hemisphere's 20 nations have been ruled by military force at one time or another since the Alianza was born...
CENTRAL AMERICA AND PANAMA. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama bring together a handsome exhibition of contemporary paintings and colorful folk art. For 25?, fairgoers can sip Central American coffee and listen to a Latin rhythm combo in an open-air patio...
Stories of exile training camps made the rounds-particularly of big doings at the old Bay of Pigs camps in Guatemala and Nicaragua. NBC-TV showed films of exile guerrillas training "somewhere in Central America," likely Costa Rica. Almost with one voice, the governments of the three countries stoutly denied any Cuban rebel activity, and other newsmen prowling the area found nothing...
...have been relatively quiet since the Bay of Pigs, but now they are on the move again-with or without U.S. help. Numbers of young exiles, many of them with U.S. Army training, have disappeared from Miami and other cities recently; exile guerrilla-training camps are reported operating in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and other Central American hideaways. At least one of these is run by Manuel Artime, a leader in the Bay of Pigs landing, who occasionally pops up in Miami. Another exile leader, Manuel Ray, once one of Castro's chief lieutenants, has pledged that he will return...