Word: bolivars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fragmented Latin America, summit conferences are rare occurrences-and successful ones rarer still. Simon Bolivar organized the first one in 1826 to press for a federation of Latin American countries, but gave up in despair when only four nations deigned to send delegates. Dwight Eisenhower gathered 19 Latin American heads of state at a summit meeting in Panama City in 1956, but his pleas for hemispheric solidarity were almost drowned out by cries for more U.S. aid funds. This week, as President Johnson flew southward to meet with the Presidents of 19-Latin American republics, there were grounds for hope...
Once the arrests were made and the arsenals confiscated, the Minutemen's founder Robert Bolivar DePugh, 42, who runs the national headquarters in tiny (pop.: 965) Norborne, Mo., disclaimed any involvement with the New York fiasco. "If they were members of the Minutemen, they were working independently," he said, adding that the affair might really have been "a counterplot, .perhaps Government-inspired" to discredit his organization. He added: "I have urged our people not to own weapons." In fact, DePugh and two other men were scheduled to go on trial this week in Kansas City, Mo., on charges...
...loan request to the Inter-American Development Bank to set up a cooperative bank among his credit unions. Such cares tend to affect a man's point of view. To a friend who recently saw him checking into Lima's Gran Hotel Bolivar, the capitalist priest explained that he "had to get away from the brothers. Those guys were keeping me awake all night arguing theology...
...former colonies. Between 1503 and 1660 Spanish galleons shipped about $1 billion worth of gold and silver bullion from the New World, while conquistadors slaughtered or enslaved thousands of Indians. Spain's comeuppance was just as brutal; in 15 short years under leaders like Simón Bolivar, José de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins, the American colonies threw off Spanish dominance and established their independence. Unlike Britain, Spain found no new worlds to conquer. The final humiliating ejection from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines by the U.S. in 1898 sank Spain into doldrums...
While the roots of the inter-American system go back to 1826, when Liberator Simón Bolivar called a meeting of eight nations in Panama to write a treaty for common defense and peaceful settlement of disputes among neighbors, the OAS dates its birth to the formation of the International Union of American Republics in 1890. Political family-hood, as Bolivar envisioned it, did not arrive until 1947, when a new generation of defense-minded Americans, meeting in Rio de Janeiro, drew up a treaty for mutual protection against aggression. In 1948 in Bogota, they agreed on a charter...