Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Basis of the policy: the U.S. shares with Latin America and the rest of the free world the goal of a world with less privation and fear, more peace with justice and freedom. The President's 15,560 jet trip through four democratic, rapidly developing republics (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay) comes as a climax to steadily growing U.S. concern for Latin America and steadily closening relations, despite-and partly because of-the simmering hostility from Cuba. On the eve of his latest flight of personal diplomacy, the President took to radio and TV, reaffirmed the U.S.'s "long...
...nation to work. Brazil's Juscelino Kubitschek is daringly steering the fastest boom in Latin America, industrializing the country with printed money. Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo is bringing political peace in the wake of two dictatorships and moving toward a sound program of land reform. Chile's Jorge Alessandri is tackling one of the world's worst cases of inflation...
...Betancourt's ear"-as though they were capturing him piece by piece. Betancourt's daughter Virginia recalls that in those years, "Daddy was always in hiding, and we never had lunch at home." Then Betancourt again hit the exile circuit, to live, write and lecture in Chile and Argentina...
...tiny Arauca Indian village of Chimpay perches high and inaccessible in the Patagonian Andes, on the border between Argentina and Chile, and the Seventh-day Adventist missionary who made his way up to it one day in 1935 must have rejoiced to be bringing religion to so remote a cranny of the world. He could only have been amazed at what he found: a community of Indians who had no Bible and could not read it if they had, although they observed the Sabbath and' knew much of Moses' teaching. He settled among them for several months, pieced...
...Roman Catholic Church is losing ground fast among its 168 million members in Latin America-close to one-third of all the Catholics in the world. This is the considered opinion of a Belgian Jesuit sociologist who has spent the last three years in Chile, is now director of the School of Sociology of Chile's Catholic Pontifical University. The church's difficulties, says the Rev. Roger E. Vekemans in the weekly Ave Maria, began in the 19th century after the Latin American countries achieved independence from Spain and Portugal and thus were thrown open to such influences...