Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week two French air force generals were in Rio de Janeiro discussing the feasibility of building a Brazilian factory for manufacturing French Mirage-type supersonic fighters. In Argentina, President Juan Carlos Onganía is considering a similar factory that would turn out French-style AMX tanks. Peru, which recently closed a deal with France for twelve Mirage jets, is building a 14,000-ton tanker in order to gain know-how for producing warships. Meantime, in the past year or two, Latin Americans have been adding steadily to their arsenals. From the U.S., Brazil bought 50 M41 light...
Hover in Twilight. By then, Asturias was one of the favorite writers of Guatemalan intellectuals; he had established himself, along with Brazil's Jorge Amado (Gabriela) and Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges (A Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy...
...other short fictional forms. He has become more widely known in the United States in recent years as his writings have been include Labyrinths, Ficciones, Dream Tigers, Other Inquisitions, and A Personal Anthology. In 1961 he received the International Publishers Prize. He is director of the National Library of Argentina, and professor of American and English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires...
Another reason for Che's failure is that Latin American armies are them selves capable of more than just fighting. From Costa Rica to Argentina, the region's armed forces are building roads, schools and hospitals in the long-neglected interior, stringing up lights and communication lines and bringing the peasant into the 20th century. To train the armed forces in both civic action and anti-guerrilla warfare, the U.S. has set up a counterinsurgency school in the Panama Canal Zone that has al ready turned out more than 1,000 graduates. The U.S. also sends advisers into...
...less intellectual plane, the historian proves himself an unexpectedly useful guide. A keen appreciator of fine sherry, Toynbee tasted the wines of Mendoza in Argentina and found them to his liking: "So far as I have sampled them, every variety is good . . . They deserve to be drunk all over the world...