Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Guatemala and Nicaragua. Still binding up the wounds of last fortnight's open rebellion, while the U.S. Navy patrols the Caribbean to make sure that Cuba does not seize the opportunity to invade.
El Salvador. Five weeks after the overthrow of President José Maria Lemus, the U.S. is still withholding recognition from the six-man revolutionary junta until the State Department's Special Envoy Allan Stewart checks reports that the junta is a front for Castroites and Communists.
Peru. A rigid feudal system controls most of the nation's land and wealth. Peru's mass-based APRA is firmly anti-Castro, but it has no chance of instituting social reforms until elections in 1962; in the meantime, a new, nationalistic party is rising to chip away...
Ecuador. President José Maria Velasco Ibarra has a record of social progress, but he also faces a feudal oligarchy so reluctant to change that his reforms may come too hard and too late.
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