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...movement gained its first Latin American foothold in Argentina during World War I, spread to neighboring Uruguay and Chile in the late 1920s. But only in recent years, as the possibilities of progress and the perils of Communism have become increasingly clear to many Latin Americans, has Christian Democracy begun to show vitality. Chile, where the party has been operating for 25 uninterrupted years, is still its strongest bastion. Led by dynamic Senator Eduardo Frei, 50, the Christian Democrats won 20% of the vote in the 1958 presidential elections, believe that "within a few years" they will be the strongest...
...hemisphere spokesmen has been immediate, strong and favorable. For the first time since the Cuban invasion, the Mexican government let it be known that it was "100% in accord with Kennedy." Chile's conservative President Jorge Alessandri was openly enthusiastic about the promised "thoroughgoing social reform," and Argentina's Arturo Frondizi said that "there can be no social development without economic development." All these were promising signs for Latin America's long-term good, but if the U.S. expected any immediate dividends from its diplomatic attempts to retrieve the Cuban disaster, it got a sharp setback...
...Argentina practically none...
...Bless America." Still, in the second look, Castro's surprising military strength and brutal police-state repression had alerted Latin America as no Yankee warnings could. In Argentina and Uruguay, anti-Castro rallies were almost as numerous as the more publicized mobs yowling "Cuba Si-Yanki No." In the depressed northern Brazil town of Caruarú, hundreds of students, singing "God bless America, land that I love" in bad but valiant English, broke up a Communist rally with rotten eggs, mushy fruit, firecrackers and fists. In their public and private statements, government officials showed chill concern over the four...
Rudimentary economic regionalism is evident in other parts of the world. A year and one-half ago, Argentina organized the Latin American Free Trade Area to improve the economic bargaining power power of member states. A Central American Common Market is also in nominal existence. The Arab League has indicated a desire to exapnd its economic authority beyond the present provisions for boycott of Israel. Under Soviet hegemony Eastern Europe has been a 'free trade' area for over a decade. And the feeble Ghana-Guinea economic union is at least an indication of the regionalist predeliction of the young states...