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...Honduras has so far experienced little of the political turmoil that has plagued its neighbors. Though military regimes have ruled for most of the past 17 years, the country's main problem is not repression but corruption. Honduras was rocked by scandal in 1975, when Strongman López Arellano resigned in the face of charges that he had taken a $1.2 million bribe from United Brands, successor to the United Fruit...
...Mexico and Venezuela, Latin America's major oil producers. The agreement, pro viding 160,000 bbl. to the region's petroleum importers with 30% credit, was signed last week in the Costa Rican capital of San José by Mexico's President José López Portillo and Venezuela's President Luis Herrera Campins. The magnanimity was in keeping with the two countries' intensifying roles as concerned economic godfathers to Central America...
...county court in October 1977; the all-white jury found them not guilty. The outcome incensed Mexican Americans and Mexicans alike. "Racist, frontier justice," charged Raul Grijalva, a Tucson school district board member. In Mexico, ballads lamented the fate of the aliens, and President José López Portillo criticized the outcome. "There was a pretty hot feeling," George Patterson, a civil engineer in Douglas, told TIME Correspondent Diana Coutu. "People were afraid to cross the line into Mexico because they were after the gringos...
...according to police accounts, were carrying pistols and Molotov cocktails. In short order, the embassy was peacefully occupied, and the Indians announced that they would hold a news conference at noon. In another part of the building were Spain's Ambassador Máximo Cajal y López, Guatemala's former Vice President Eduardo Caceres Lehnhoff and onetime Foreign Minister Adolfo Molina Orantes. They immediately ended their meeting to begin negotiations with the intruders. As government security forces drew up in front of the embassy, the Ambassador called for their withdrawal, believing a peaceful settlement...
Mexico's President López Portillo [Oct. 8] expresses legitimate concern when he questions supplying oil to Americans who are unwilling to apply "discipline" in oil consumption. In view of the fact that his country's population is expected to double in only 22 years, isn't it legitimate for us to ask when Mexicans will apply the discipline necessary to control population growth and quit dumping their excess millions over our borders...