Word: america
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenge U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean by picking "targets of opportunity"-places where a minimum of aid can yield high propaganda dividends without directly confronting U.S. might. In Nicaragua, Castro did little more than supply arms and some training for the Sandinistas, who also received assistance from Latin America's remaining handful of democracies. Instead of attempting to foment revolutions, the Cuban leader has launched an aggressive campaign of diplomacy and aid that speaks to the social ills plaguing the Caribbean. Says a British Caribbean specialist: "The Cubans did not create these conditions. They were opportunities which developed over...
...exception, poorly endowed with natural resources and handicapped by single-commodity, export-oriented economies that present few opportunities for rapid growth or full employment. Unemployment in the 22 Caribbean nations averages 40%. Millions of their citizens, including thousands of Haitian boat people, have made their way to jobs in America...
...survives only by massive infusions of Soviet aid (an estimated $2.5 billion a year), Castro's nose-thumbing attitude toward the U.S. and his admitted achievements-notably the elimination of illiteracy-provide an alluring model for Cuba's neighbors. Says Abraham Lowenthal, a U.S. authority on Latin America: "These countries are satellites in search of an orbit. They may become part of the Cuban orbit, but not for military reasons. If the Cubans succeed, it will be because Cuba is able to convey a greater sense of social and economic integration, a greater sense of nation-building...
...message was uncompromising. The theme was, in the words of one strategically placed Vatican official, "that all the test and trial after the Second Vatican Council is ended. He doesn't care how much opposition he encounters." Nowhere is that opposition likely to be stronger than in America. While most U.S. Roman Catholics last week basked in the afterglow of his visit, the church's liberal wing was ready to end something of a moratorium on criticism of the new Pope...
...week, there is an organic connection between them. A man who has observed the survival of his church against heavy pressures in Poland is likely to believe that in the West, too, a disciplined and doctrinally unified church is best equipped to struggle with the evils of society. In America, at least, he may be about to test that judgment...