Word: alianza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to have promised. "It would have been better to have had silence," said he, "than to have spread seeds of hope that will never grow and bear fruit." As presently constituted, Kubitschek went on, the Alliance is little more than a label. "I protest against using the name Alianza as a label for projects of all sorts, some of which had already been put into operation before the creation of the Alliance and which have no creative purpose...
...surprise of the campaign is the No. 3 man, Odría, a crusty 65-year-old general whose 1948-56 reign is best remembered for economic stability, handsome public works, and jails full of political prisoners. Like everyone else, he now calls for all the reforms in the Alianza and promises what he terms "socialism within the law." All he means by it is that the state will take better care of the poor, but the message gets a lot of mileage. In 1961 Odría was hit in the face by a potato during his first campaign...
Calling the Tune. With a $5,000,000 Alianza credit, Arosemena's government is underwriting an industry-luring program that includes tax exemptions. During the last month, more than 20 small foreign companies got approval of their plans to invest in Ecuador. The government passed a more equitable income tax law, and hopes to eliminate a welter of other tax laws that permit Congress to allot 48% of total federal revenues to "autonomous agencies" such as the Red Cross, universities, private schools and sports clubs. The government is moving ahead with a program to push roads into lush...
...Washington, Food for Peace officials have coined a name for the project-Alianza para los Niños, meaning Alliance for Children. The food is credited with helping to double Peru's rural school attendance since the program began; school absenteeism in Bolivia has dropped from 38% to 2%, and students now make sure to be on time since latecomers go to the end of the lunch line. Each day in Mexico, more than 1,000,000 schoolchildren receive the donated food. "The lunch is the only reason a lot of parents send their children to school," says Djalma...
...most general complaints about the Alliance-that it fails to reach down to Latin America's impoverished masses-the delegates proposed that two top Latin American statesmen be chosen to work independently, and, as their imaginations dictate, to spread the Alianza's message. Favored candidates: Colombia's ex-President Alberto Lleras Camargo and Brazil's ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek...