FOREIGN TRADE 
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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 con 
valescent 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 min 
eral wealth, or covered with luxuriant for 
ests. Throughout Latin America large and 
small rivers afford easy and cheap means of 
transportation. Drought or excessive rain 
falls 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, for 
merly 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