Word: alianza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carrot & Stick. The basis of Ruiz' campaign is "military civil action," a program for making friends among the campesinos. Army troops show backward peasants how to build schools, highways, health centers, wells and sewers. Government agencies contribute drugs and crop seeds. Alianza funds provide many items, from mobile dispensaries to bulldozers. Army officers help out in classrooms. On Sundays, military bands tootle in village squares. And throughout the country, thousands of posters ask campesinos to help the military track down bandits...
...Venezuela, from Mendoza and Gustavo Vollmer (sugar mills) to Henry Lord Boulton (shipping, Avensa Airlines, wholesale food), and Jesus Calvo Lairet, president of the Banco de Comercio. Initial capital, based on projected earnings of members for 1964, is $7,000,000. More funds will be raised from UNESCO, the Alianza and other national and international loan agencies...
Last week Peru's Congress was debating a $579 million budget for the coming year, biggest in Peru's history, and Belaúnde is discussing loans with West Germany, Great Britain, Japan, even Finland. The country's Alianza aid, Peruvians feel, has been snagged because of the disputed International Petroleum Co. concession (TIME, Nov. 8). But Belaúnde talks hopefully of agreement, and U.S. businessmen think he means...
Latin Americans have long complained that the Alliance for Progress is less an alliance than a series of bilateral aid agreements between the U.S. and 19 hemisphere nations. The U.S. now agrees, and at an Alianza meeting in Sao Paulo last November, an eight-man inter-American executive committee was set up to act as a clearinghouse between the U.S. and its Alianza partners. Last week in Washington, the Inter-American Economic and Social Council of the OAS chose Carlos Sanz de Santamaria, 58, Colombia's Finance Minister, to boss the committee...
Working indirectly with Assistant Secretary of State Thomas C. Mann (TIME cover, Jan. 31), Sanz and his committee will tackle the ticklish, difficult task of pinpointing aid needs, channeling requests and making recommendations on how Alianza funds should be spent. He has high credentials. Educated as a civil engineer, Sanz was a successful builder for ten years. Moving into politics, he became one of the best mayors Bogota ever had, served in four different Cabinets, was twice Ambassador...