Word: argentina
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...effective answers to their political problems, Latin American countries are turning more and more to radical solutions, both of the left and of the right. The polarization of the continent has picked up speed since the mid-1960s, first with the emergence of ultraconservative military regimes in Brazil and Argentina and, in 1968, with Peru's takeover by a leftist junta. The men in command may be soldiers or civilians, but they are almost uniformly authoritarian. At present, twelve of Latin America's 25 nations and over 62% of its 270 million people are ruled by far-right...
Comfort from the KGB. During the months of wandering, Che was comforted by perhaps the strangest and most elusive character of the entire drama. Code-named Tania, she was a dark, beautiful young woman in her mid-20s. She told Che that she was from Argentina. Actually, she was an East German girl named Tamara Bunke, who was sent to Havana in the mid-1960s by the Soviet KGB to keep tabs on Guevara...
...worked in Argentina while the government in power expropriated foreign petroleum properties and made other hostile noises about foreign investors. We halted this project in 1966 following a military coup which installed a government which has been among the most receptive in Latin American toward American capital...
Most alarmed of all were the military regimes bordering on Chile. The Bolivian government feared that Allende would allow leftist guerrillas to operate from sanctuaries in Chile. An adviser to Argentine President Roberto Marcelo Levingston, predicting that Allende's victory would cause Argentina's military budget to be doubled, declared: "It's a disaster. It means we have two Cubas in Latin America instead...
Though half blind and half deaf, Argentine Author Jorge Luis Borges, 71, is still pouring out prose and poetry while lecturing and serving as head of Argentina's National Library. Last week, as he became the first winner of the new $25,000 Inter-American Literature Prize, Borges was characteristically modest, though candid: "I am not worthy of this award, but I will, of course, accept it nonetheless." As for the Nobel Prize that it is rumored he will get, he said wryly: "I would accept it greedily -like a Viking...