Word: salvadoran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-distance aspects, as a link in inter-American unity, see it in its local character, as an immediately useful road. The road ends age-old isolation, makes it possible to get bananas to market, to exchange them for huaraches and cooking pots, to trade Honduran lumber for Salvadoran sugar and corn...
...many a U.S. citizen, as to many a Latino, an inglorious chapter in the highway's past seemed less important than the highway's future. Mexico was going ahead, would have the road completed by 1949 from border to border. Said Salvadoran President Castaneda: "The Government and people of El Salvador want to see the highway finished through Central America. It will strengthen the economic unity and friendship of our countries...
...Salvadoran Army officers tried to topple El Salvador's new up-&-coming Government last week. Into President Salvador Castaneda Castro's office stalked 100 Army officers. They demanded a governmental shakeup, including Army autonomy. Castaneda promised to consider their demands. That night, he ordered loyal Army units to arrest suspected officers. As one unit moved up on Ilopango airfield, two rebel planes took off. Loyal antiaircraft fire hit the first plane's gas tank. The plane crashed in flames. The pilot and the gunner were killed...
Immediate results in El Salvador was a fierce outburst of anti-U.S. feeling. President Franklin Roosevelt was booed in movie theaters. Salvadoran democratic leaders tried to hush the hullabaloo, were inclined to blame not the U.S., but the powerful United Fruit Co. They suspected that United Fruit opposed the spread of democracy for fear of increased taxes and stricter labor laws...
...airport, Mr. Stettinius blithely asked for "the President." (Guatemala has no President just now-he fled before a revolution four months ago.) The Secretary did not improve matters by professing not to know that his State Department had just decided to recognize revolutionary Guatemala's hated enemy, Salvadoran Dictator Osmin Aguirre. But Ed Stettinius got what he was after, persuaded Guatemala's Foreign Minister Enrique Muñoz Meany and Finance Minister Gabriel Orellana Hijo to accompany him to Mexico City...