Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not an attractive prospect, perhaps not even for the Russians. Should they arrive, book lovers among them might experience a sense of déjà vu. From Mexico to the islands of southern Chile and Argentina, there is a burst of literary energy reminiscent of the age of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Great differences exist between the writers of 19th century Russia and 20th century Latin America, but so do profound similarities. Both groups have had to face provincialism, political suppression and foreign influences that threatened to drown out their native voices...
Latin America has seldom been short of renowned poets, notably Peru's César Vallejo and Chile's Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, both of whom won Nobel Prizes. But in the 1960s, North America began to encounter the names of novelists and essayists who would be associated with El Boom. The term suggested the sudden discovery of Latin American talent rather than its slow growth. Says Gregory Rabassa, the distinguished translator of many Hispanic writers: "El Boom is not quite right. I would prefer something a little stuffier, like fomento." The word means a gradual development...
...only three countries, but the question could have been rephrased: instead of spending $85 million to encourage democracy abroad. Why not simply cut back on the much larger number of U.S. tax dollars spent arming and propping up violently repressive, anti-democratic regimes in Guatemala. Haiti, the Philippines, Chile, and various other places...
...American calls for democracy in light of our government's history of engineering the overthrow of democratically elected governments? Although American citizens possess a notoriously short and often severely abridged sense of history, the governments has acknowledged openly its role in overturning democracy in Iran(1953), Guatemala(1954), and Chile(1973). And the rest of the world has not forgotten...
Here Galbraith raises the intriguing question of just how exactly to share the world's wealth without creating disturbances, but his answers themselves are underdeveloped. He is infact, wrong that political development is a necessary prerequisite for economic development as fairly prosperous but repressive regimes in Chile Taiwan, and the Philippines demonstrate. And while most people can agree on what might constitute an advanced economy plentiful wealth fairly distributed-few can agree on what an advanced culture is. Non economic or cultural assistance would certainly create the headaches and the upheaval which the author tries to prevent...