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Guatemala's President Miguel Ydigoras has been the most vigorous opponent of Castro among all Latin American leaders. The Bay of Pigs invasion brigade trained on Guatemalan soil, and Ydigoras even offered to let anti-Castro Cubans form a government in exile there. But last week, facing strong pressure from the left and right, Ydigoras ordered all anti-Castro Cubans rounded up and expelled from Guatemala. "It is time,'' he said, "for other Latin American countries to do their part." As for the U.S., he told a reporter, "I would like to live in Florida...
...have agreed to erase tariffs on 200 items within the past two years, aim for fully free trade with one another and a single external tariff within a decade. A scheme to grant each member a monopoly on producing certain goods has led mostly to shoddier products. Grumped one Guatemalan housewife last week: "I used to pay 35?for a can of imported soup. Now I have to pay 45? for Central American soup and risk ptomaine poisoning to boot." But already, trade among the Central American partners has increased substantially, and the future of the union looks bright enough...
...Houston group with the backing of Shell interests, Breaux Bridge received a concession in 1958 to set up a $5,000,000 refinery-Central America's first-on Guatemala's Caribbean coast. Not long after construction began, Ydigoras personally issued an order that, in effect, forbade all Guatemalan consulates abroad to approve any shipping documents for Breaux. Breaux appealed to the Supreme Court, a tribunal capable of independence, and won an injunction. When the company began laying pipeline to the docks of Puerto Barrios three miles away, the President showed up at the construction site, delivered a threat...
...Mexico, income from real property is taxexempt; stockholders are not required to register stock by name, thereby making it easy to evade the comparatively low 15% tax on dividends. Guatemala and Paraguay, both sorely in need of development funds, have no income taxes, although Guatemalan President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes is trying to push one through Congress. Colombia does not tax capital gains. While the U.S. levies a maximum income tax of 91% on top-bracket citizens, maximum taxes on Latin Americans average...
...Communist treatises on guerrilla warfare, proved himself a troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing.") Che's own opening speech was a 2½-hour diatribe against the U.S. (which he called "the monster"). Then he turned around, became the picture of reason and light, said...