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...Communist Castroites, who called him El Pato Macho del Mangoneo (The Top Banana of Machinations). Said Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deño: "I have the respect for that man that I have for my own father." Caamaño's archrival, General Antonio Imbert Barreras, agreed...
...senior faculty level, two new chairs have been endowed. Enrique Anderson-Imbert has been named Victor S. Thomas Professor of Hispanic American Literature. The Monroe Gutman Professorship in Latin American Studies has been given to the Argentine sociologist, Gino Germani. Three permanent posts have been filled by noted scholars with an interest in Latin America. Professors Hirschman, Pary, and Maybury-Lewis have been appointed in Economics, History and Anthropology respectively...
Albert O. Hirschman, professor of Political Economy, came to Harvard this year to study Latin America's economic difficulties. Enrique Anderson-Imbert, the first Victor S. Thomas Professor of Hispanic-American Literature and a short story writer, is studying the works of Spanish-speaking authors...
Marichal warned that an uncontrolled "inflation" of Latin American study at Harvard could be power," he explained, "many universities set up area studies without having the trained men to make them worthwhile." He noted, however, that the arrival at Harvard this year of men like Enrique Anderson-Imbert, victor S. Thomas Professor of Hispanic American Literature, and Albert O. Hirschman, professor of political Economy, provide a nucleus about which a Center can be built...
...prevent the victory of a revolutionary movement" wrongly judged to be Communist-dominated. President Johnson, said Fulbright, reacted to "exaggerated estimates of Communist influence in the rebel movement," then overreacted by sending in 20,000 troops. To make matters worse, the U.S. then took sides with Brigadier General Antonio Imbert's loyalist junta-"a corrupt and reactionary military oligarchy." Concluded Fulbright: "If we are automatically to oppose any reform movement that Communists adhere to, we are likely to end up opposing every reform movement, making ourselves the prisoners of reactionaries who wish to preserve the status...