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I'hoto and copyright by The Keystone N'icw Co. 



WATCHING THE STEAMERS ENTERING PORT: LA GUAIRA, VENEZUELA 



La Guaira is the chief port of Venezuela. It hes in a valley surrounded on three sides 

 hy high mountains. It is an unattractive town. The streets are narrow and badly paved, 

 and tlic houses ill-built. There are, however, a few tine public buildings and some handsome 

 churches. A winding railroad connects it with the capital — Caracas — some 23 miles distant. 



tions come along and leave their coffee 

 to spoil unfathered and their cotton to 

 go to waste impicked. Ask the financier 

 from Xew Orleans who spent 20 years 

 of liardships there trving to gather to- 

 gether a com])etence, and who now finds 

 his husiness wrecked and in the hands of 

 receivers. 



Given good governments, then no coun- 

 tries on the map would afford greater 

 opportunities for profitahle investments 

 than tho.se of Central America. With 

 such governments as some of them now 

 have, all their natural wealth cannot oft- 



set the disadvantages of those govern- 

 ments, and an investment at 4 per cent 

 in the United States is often to be pre- 

 ferred to one yielding 100 per cent in 

 some of these countries. 



A CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLIC WHERE 

 TIIEV DO NOT ll.W 1: REVOLUTIONS 



When we come to Costa Rica things 

 arc beginning to be different, and Costa 

 Rica does not like to be reckoned in the 

 same 'class with Nicaragua. Honduras, 

 and Ouatemala. She has not had a revo- 

 lution in a generation. The country is 



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