Word: castroisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committed under Trujillo. Presumably this was his asking price. The opposition U.C.N. could only resume its strike in the streets, hopeful that the rioting would not get out of hand. Looking on, the U.S. was concerned that too sudden an overturn of armed authority might open the gates to Castroism-but also hoped that the nation's long suppressed wish for democratic freedom would be recognized. It was prodding both sides to settle...
Certainly, under the principles of humanitarianism every human life is valued highly. Yet in the tractors-for-freedom trade, it is a question of a thousand lives overshadowing the lives of millions throughout the world. If we provide freedom for these men by submitting to Castroism, we give aid to eventual enslavement of all people...
...Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela, the leader of Latin America's non-Communist, anti-Castro left. The head of one of the few regimes giving serious consideration and action to the social and economic problems to which "Castroism" is a response, Betancourt, Mrs. Dean indicates, should be the model for United States efforts in Latin America...
Rising Expectations. With direct military intervention ruled out, the Administration inevitably turned to that old standard remedy for cold-war frustrations: more money for economic aid. Secretary Rusk declared that the "real issue" in Latin America was not Castroism but the "rising expectations" of the poverty-pinched masses. President Kennedy told his press conference that the U.S. was urging a special meeting of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council in mid-July to draw up a program of "realistic economic development in the Americas...
...resistance from potential U.S. investors, Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin showed up at a Manhattan hotel to give a pep talk on the Commonwealth's economic possibilities to 500 U.S. businessmen. When he finished, the first question was: "What about Castro?" Fearful that Castroism has high export value, many U.S. businessmen wonder if Cuba's nationalization of U.S. investment (totaling $1.5 billion) may be an augury of things to come across the hemisphere...