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terminated  her  bloodiest  revolution  under
Castro,  harvesting  and  exporting  a  bumper
crop  of  coffee,  which  immediately  cleared  up
her  monetary  depression,  and  this  rapid  convalescent ­
  condition  has  been  duplicated  time
and  time  again  after  every  period  of  internal
trouble  experienced  by  all  of  these  countries.
Nature  has  been  bounteous  in  her  gifts  to
these  favored  lands  of  the  sun.  If  in  a  given
locality  the  soil  is  not  fertile,  it  is  rich  in  mineral ­
  wealth,  or  covered  with  luxuriant  forests. ­
  Throughout  Latin  America  large  and
small  rivers  afford  easy  and  cheap  means  of
transportation.  Drought  or  excessive  rainfalls ­
  are  comparatively  unknown.  Despite
the  fact  that  a  majority  of  the  population  lives
primitively,  epidemics  of  a  severe  nature  have
been  few  and  far  between.  Revolutions,  formerly ­
  the  blight  on  these  lands,  are  becoming
rare  and  in  most  of  these  countries  there
have  been  no  such  uprisings  or  demonstrations
of  this  character  for  more  than  twenty  years.
The  opportunities  for  successful  business
in  almost  any  chosen  line  in  Latin  America  are