Word: costas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nations (excluding Cuba) rose 5.5% to more than $90 billion in 1964, v. a 1.8% increase the year before. The big gains came from Mexico (up 10% chiefly on a construction boom), Venezuela (up 7.6% on record oil exports) and the nascent Central American Common Market, whose five members-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -averaged a 7% increase. Tugging the figures down were Brazil, which gained only 1.4% because of inflation; Uruguay, which gained only 1.1% thanks to a stagnating economy; and Panama, whose gross product decreased 1.5% owing to a multitude of woes...
After a look around, Alvim advised President Johnson that the situation seemed well enough in hand to withdraw more U.S. troops. Almost immediately, Johnson ordered the last 2,100 marines out, leaving 12,500 U.S. paratroopers and 1,560 troops from Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua, plus a 6,500-man U.S. Navy task force offshore...
...insisted that the problem was one for the OAS. At OAS headquarters in Washington, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker urgently advised Latin Americans to honor their pledge for a multination military force to help the U.S. keep order. And indeed, the first Latin Americans started arriving: 250 Honduran infantrymen, 20 Costa Rican policemen. Others were on their way from Nicaragua, probably from Brazil...
...headed off a war between Costa Rica and Nicaragua after Nicaragua tried to foment a revolution in its southern neighbor. That same year the OAS prevented a shooting match between Ecuador and Peru over a disputed strip of jungle. Not surprisingly, the Dominican Republic has been a frequent customer; in 1960, when Dictator Rafael Trujillo's goons tried to murder Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, the OAS imposed diplomatic and economic sanctions. Last week's five-man peace team was the 13th OAS delegation to visit the country since...
Inevitably, less effort and less time have gone into the development of younger democracies. Latin America boasts half a dozen democratic regimes-at the moment. The stablest are Chile, with more than 40 years of fairly literate, honest politics, and Costa Rica. The others are Peru, Venezuela, Colombia and Uruguay, and they are all beset in varying degrees by violence and the threat of periodic coups. But at least at present, their democratic machinery is more or less intact...