Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed routine enough: the White House last week announced the appointment of Ambassador to Chile Robert F.Woodward, 52, as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. But behind that appointment lay five months of incredible confusion and frustration within the New Frontier. Before Woodward, no fewer than 21 persons had been sounded out for the Inter-American Affairs job. Such candidates as Ellsworth Bunker, retired Ambassador to India, and Carl Spaeth, dean of the Stanford University Law School, had politely but firmly rejected it. And Bob Woodward accepted only because, as a career diplomat, he had little choice...
...population of the great cordillera of the Andes, which stretches 4,500 miles from Colombia to the southern tip of Chile, consists of some 15 million Indians and a handful of descendants of the Spanish conquistadors. The Indians work the land; the aristocracy owns it. Hunger-pinched, and with a life expectancy of 32 years, the Indians live in what amounts to medieval serfdom. Their circumstances show why agrarian reform is a popular cry throughout Latin America. Last week TIME Correspondent Harvey Rosenhouse visited a hacienda high in the Peruvian Andes. His report...
...movement gained its first Latin American foothold in Argentina during World War I, spread to neighboring Uruguay and Chile in the late 1920s. But only in recent years, as the possibilities of progress and the perils of Communism have become increasingly clear to many Latin Americans, has Christian Democracy begun to show vitality. Chile, where the party has been operating for 25 uninterrupted years, is still its strongest bastion. Led by dynamic Senator Eduardo Frei, 50, the Christian Democrats won 20% of the vote in the 1958 presidential elections, believe that "within a few years" they will be the strongest...
...Complaints. The reaction from the hemisphere spokesmen has been immediate, strong and favorable. For the first time since the Cuban invasion, the Mexican government let it be known that it was "100% in accord with Kennedy." Chile's conservative President Jorge Alessandri was openly enthusiastic about the promised "thoroughgoing social reform," and Argentina's Arturo Frondizi said that "there can be no social development without economic development." All these were promising signs for Latin America's long-term good, but if the U.S. expected any immediate dividends from its diplomatic attempts to retrieve the Cuban disaster...
...students demonstrated against Castro. In San José, Costa Rica, students at the city's eight high schools walked out to demand a break in diplomatic relations, and President Mario Echandi deplored the restricting "principle of nonintervention which seems every day more unsuitable to inter-American unity." Chile's President Alessandri blamed the Communist bloc for the "disquieting situation in the hemisphere." Mexico, from whose shores Castro launched his original invasion of Cuba, is the nation still most dedicated to Castro's cause, and though President López Mateos, a middle-of-the-roader, might have...