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A Senator’s Tour of US Embassies and the United Fruit Company’s Operations in Central America 1958

Senator Allen J Ellender of Louisiana in Jutiapa, Guatemala, 1958. ©KMC

US Embassy, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1958. ©KMC

Aerial view of Guatemala City, Guatemala, and surrounding countryside, 1958. ©KMC

Street market in Jutiapa, Guatemala, near the border with El Salvador, 1958. ©KMC

A man drives a pair of oxen through a field, plowing with a crooked limb, El Salvador, 1958. ©KMC

Volcán de San Vicente, El Salvador, 1958. ©KMC

US Embassy, San Salvador, El Salvador, 1958. ©KMC

El Picacho, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1958. ©KMC

Panorama of mountains and valley, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1958. ©KMC

Street view of downtown Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1958. ©KMC

Street view of downtown Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1958. ©KMC

US Embassy, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1958. ©KMC

IAGS helicopter waiting for Senator Ellender at the junction of the Pan American Highway and Rama Road, Nicaragua, 1958. ©KMC

Laguna de Apoyeque on the Chiltepe Peninsula, which extends into Lake Managua in west-central Nicaragua, 1958. ©KMC

Aerial of Momotombo's crater on the north shore of Lake Managua, Nicaragua, 1958. ©KMC

Managua on Lago Xolotlán (Lake Managua) with Chiltepe Peninsula and Volcán Momotombo in the background, 1958. ©KMC

US Ambassador's residence, Managua, Nicaragua, 1958. ©KMC

Pool at the US Ambassador's residence, Managua, Nicaragua, 1958. ©KMC

Thatch roof huts in Quinama village, Nicaragua, 1958. ©KMC

Volcán Concepción on Isla de Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua (Lago Cocibolca), Nicaragua, 1958. ©KMC

US Ambassador's residence, San José, Costa Rica, 1958. ©KMC

Senator Ellender and US Ambassador to Costa Rica, Whiting Willauer, San José, Costa Rica, 1958. Willauer served as US ambassador to Honduras in 1954, during CIA operation to overthrow the president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. ©KMC

US Embassy, San José, Costa Rica, 1958. ©KMC

San José, Costa Rica, and surrounding mountains, 1958. ©KMC

United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) executives meet with Senator Ellender on a golf course in San José, Costa Rica, 1958. ©KMC

Senator Ellender and United Fruit Company execs with stone sphere uncovered during banana plantation cultivation near Valle del Diquis, Costa Rica, 1958. ©KMC

Senator Ellender on stone sphere uncovered by the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1958. ©KMC

Senator Ellender on United Fruit Company railroad motorcar, Costa Rica, 1958. ©KMC

United Fruit Company docks on Golfito Bay, Costa Rica, 1958. ©KMC

Golfito Bay off Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, 1958. ©KMC

US Embassy, Panama City, Panama, 1958. ©KMC

Port of Panama City and mouth of Panama Canal, 1958. ©KMC