Word: asunci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still thinking in terms of our individual nations and not of the common benefits," complained a Venezuelan official after the conference finally broke up. Chile's Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux decried the "exaggerated, abusive" use of the veto, and Ecuador's delegate to Asunción, Julio Prado Vallejo, said flatly that the conference demonstrated "the unacceptability of new compromises...
Despite that gloomy assessment, none of the foreign ministers thinks that the Asunción Conference has doomed the grand vision of a free market stretching from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn. Indeed, one of the conference's achievements was the approval of a regional subgrouping within LAFTA that will soon open up a free-trade zone embracing 50 million people. The so-called "Andino group" of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Chile will begin planning its tariff cuts next month. As for LAFTA, its diplomats will resume talks in November. If nothing else, they discovered at Asunci...
...exiled Argentine Dictator Juan Perón's comely blonde wife, and when she landed from Spain at New York's Kennedy airport, the newshounds had her surrounded. She was just changing planes, she cooed, and was on her way for a three-week "vacation" in Asunción, Paraguay. Since sun-scorched little Paraguay is hardly a jet-set spa, rumors buzzed that she was preparing yet another Perón attempt at El Retorno. Peronistas in the group, chastened by December's fiasco, when Perón was air expressed back to Spain, claimed...
...service? The couplings on many passenger coaches are so faulty that the locomotive sometimes chugs out of the station leaving the cars behind. Trains from La Paz, Bolivia, and Asunción, Paraguay, often arrive three days late; the 250-mile trip from Santa Fe south to Buenos Aires often takes 14 hours and sometimes more. Cattlemen have angrily protested to the government about cattle trains from the pampas that arrive at the stockyards with 20% of the livestock dead...