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...while Williams gets all the political mileage he can out of anticolonialism, he has not led his infant country of 900,000 people into the leftist camp or driven away business. With a relatively high $500-per-capita annual income, Trinidad could expect no great influx of U.S. or British government aid. But the U.S. came through with a pledge of $30 million over a five-year period for development projects, and has promised to build a road from Port of Spain to the U.S. Chaguaramas Naval Base. So far, despite Trinidad's own slight recession, industrialization is proceeding...
...Alliance's basic premise is one of matching funds: that is, Alliance money will supplement government and private capital for approved projects. With real per capita income falling, the cost of living doubling yearly and the world's least stable currency, Brazil has trouble matching American allocations. But Goulart knows that the rest of the hemisphere does not share Brazil's problems. His condemnation of the Alliance before the assembled representatives of the Latin republics was calculated to secure greater recognition of Brazil as a hemispheric leader...
...begin with, the mess has very little to do with crime. Reporters find it exciting to present accounts of visitors being robbed "within sight of the Capitol dome," but it is still true that of the twelve largest American cities, Washington had only the seventh highest crime rate per capita. The crime rate is on the rise in the District; it is also going up in the other eleven cities...
Looking Down. In between a White House state luncheon, a State Department dinner, and two hours of talks with President Kennedy last week, Paz asked for special delivery U.S. aid for a project that goes far beyond the tin mines. Already Bolivia gets more U.S. aid per capita than any other Latin American nation. Bolivia is so poor (per capita income: $114, only slightly better than Haiti) and so afflicted by nature that the strongest hope for progress rests in a vast scheme to open up fertile eastern lowlands beyond the Andes and relocate large numbers of altiplano Indians...
...capita income now stands at $850, highest in Latin America...