Hondurans sported pine sprigs in their lapels, grinned a new greeting "Pinos de Honduras." Pine twigs appeared on Government desks. For this piney atmosphere, a tiny, cherubic Guatemalan, Juan José Orozco Posadas, was responsible.
Orozco, private secretary to Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, had been concerned about the repressed democrats of neighboring Honduras (which, with Nicaragua, had the last dictator-run government in Central America). Orozco went on the radio, broadcast to his neighbors: "Only the pines growing high on Honduras' proud mountains have remained free in that martyred land. And their roots go deep. 'Pines of Honduras' must become the password...
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