Word: alianza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked up a $20 million line of credit, discussed access to French markets for finished and semifinished goods. "This would break all previous trade patterns imposed by France," said Frei. England agreed to consider sending its minister of overseas development to Chile to organize a plan for regional, Alianza-like development. West Germany discussed financial and technical aid for mineral studies in northern Chile...
...general 5.5% growth is not all gravy. Latin America's population increased 3% last year, thus cutting the per-capita increase to 2.5%. Still, that figure is right on the button with the Alianza's targeted rate and is more than twice the average 1.1% pace that prevailed from...
Shortly before the Alianza para el Progreso was proclaimed in 1961, Thomas C. Mann, the U.S. State Department's ranking expert on Latin America, glumly compared the area to "a pile of sugar being eaten away by a fire hose." Much of the erosion has since been halted. The Alianza has made considerable progress in developing economies, while Castro has been ex posed as a bungling adventurer. The Brazilian revolution ended the drift to Communism under a feckless leftist President; Chile averted the same fate in a head-to-head election in which the Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei...
...Must Work." The problem was not so much Imbert, who was struggling to return some sort of order to the 90% of Santo Domingo he said he controlled. With U.S. permission, Imbert dipped into Alianza funds for $700,000 to pay government employees and get them back to work, called the city's top businessmen to the Congressional Palace and urged them to start up their factories. "We must create a national movement and work for our country," he said. "The Communists work night...
Today, 20 nations belong to the OAS. Through dozens of councils and committees, the OAS plays a major role in coordinating Alianza programs; it trains technicians, promotes public health, welfare and education. But its biggest job is political -acting as a peace-keeping mediator. In any dispute, at least one of the parties must request OAS help before it will intervene. Routine squabbles are handled by the permanent Council of OAS Ambassadors which meets twice a month; in serious cases, the Council may summon a meeting of OAS foreign ministers, or simply sit in for the ministers, acting on orders...