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Worn not at all by time or constant airing, Shakespeare doth bestride the summered continent like a colossus:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 11, 1969 | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Rockefeller and the White House are convinced that his mission is worth the cost, if only because it dramatically exposes the deep strains in U.S.-Latin American relations. There can be little doubt that a new U.S. policy is needed. Latin America is a continent in ferment, dissatisfied as never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ROCKEFELLER'S TOUR | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Middle Class. Yet the elements of power are slowly changing. In the past three centuries, the only forces that mattered in any Latin country were the landed oligarchy, the Roman Catholic Church and the military. That triad still predominates, and only 10% of the people own 90% of the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ROCKEFELLER'S TOUR | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

What can be done to solve the crushing farrago of problems? Nationalist governments could expropriate every American business on the continent, and the region's economic destiny would still be inseparably intertwined with and dependent on the U.S. Washington could funnel huge amounts of money southward, and little would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ROCKEFELLER'S TOUR | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

U.S. business has been having more than its share of difficulties with Latin America lately. Peru expropriated the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co., Mexico forced subsidiaries of U.S. mining companies to admit local partners, and 21 Latin American governments complained to President Nixon that U.S. business repatriates more in profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Clamor over Chilean Copper | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

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