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Higher education in Latin America gains world attention only when students riot, which they seem to do somewhere at least once a month, or when governments crack down on them. Lately, the schools in the news have been those of Argentina, where President Juan Carlos Ongania has attempted to curb the universities' tradition of freedom from government control...
After Ongania imposed strict new rules on Argentina's nine national universities last month, students rioted, six rectors resigned, and nearly half of the 2,000 teachers at the big (81,000 students) University of Buenos Aires said they would quit rather than take an oath of loyalty to the regime. Last week, when Ongania attempted to reopen the university under a new, pro-government rector, students paraded through the streets chanting "Books si, boots no!" Police arrested 85 of the rioters, and Ongania banned the country's student federation, which promptly called a nationwide strike...
...ailing Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). A LAFTA ministerial meeting is scheduled for Montevideo next December, and the five nations gathered in Bogotá-all small and relatively undiversified-could well be trying to organize a pressure group to counteract the larger individual power of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. Predictably, the five denied any such intention. "We are not trying to create an economic bloc," Frei said. "We are only trying to start something which will spread through Latin America...
...Latin American governments can long survive without the support of the Catholic Church, and nowhere is this fact more important than in Argentina. There, the cardinal ranks third in official protocol and regularly moves in presidential circles. To prove his own strong Catholic bent, Strongman Juan Carlos Onganía constantly refers to religion in his speeches and has had large contingents of priests on hand on ceremonial occasions. Yet last week many churchmen were showing signs of washing their hands of his revolution and his government...
...enlighten those who blindly condemn it, I will stress that the Argentine Revolution aims to consolidate a system based on the country's historical heritage: the Christian, Spanish and Federal evolutionary way of life. Argentina, more than anything else, needs a climate of political stability in order to allow its full development and the fullfillment of a responsible society. To this end, a viable economy is essential, the economic growth required. Only in lasting order can this be guaranteed...