Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backed by Brazil, Chile and Peru, U.S. Ambassador to the OAS John Dreier proposed a conference of the 21 foreign ministers to examine the "grave situation" in the Caribbean "on a broad front." Dreier recalled that in three months the OAS had met twice before to study threats to peace (in Panama and Nicaragua), and that dealing with each squall as it broke out was "futile." Understood but unsaid: that the trouble will continue as long as Castro keeps exporting revolution. And, Dreier warned, "Communists have attempted, and with some success, to infiltrate those revolutionary movements...
Editor Grosvenor, 57, happily follows the principles set by his father, believes that "controversy" should be left to other publications. Last week Geographic staffers, their faces solemn and awestruck as any tourist's, legged it eagerly through Jamaica, Yucatan, Cambodia, Hawaii, Chile, Australia, Italy, India and the South Seas. What they sensed and saw would be pleasantly and blandly recorded, at the Magazine's leisure, in some future issue. No rush about it: a magazine whose color inks are mixed to stay brilliant 2½ centuries cannot be expected to hurry...
...latifundios, the big farms that have dominated Latin American agriculture ever since the time of Conquistador Hernan Cortes, who got a royal grant of 100,000 Indians and 25,000 square miles of farmland in 1529. In Venezuela, 3% of the land holders own 90% of the land; in Chile, 2% own 52%; just 2% of the people own half of Brazil...
...Chile's Hernán Videla Lira raised the menace of Red trade. "Moscow," he said, "has definitely stated that it is attempting the economic conquest of the free world and, in this way, imposition of its political conditions." But despite hundreds of proposed deals-including 176 to Brazil alone in 1958-Iron-and Bamboo-Curtain trade runs around only 1% of Latin America's total. And Communist loans to all of Latin America so far total only...
...Italians overlooked were fair game for the busy West Germans. Not long ago U.S. manufacturers worried about German bicycles and other consumer goods. Today the Germans are supplying major elements of a refinery in Argentina, providing the pipes for a Venezuelan irrigation project, and installing a pipeline in Chile...