Word: inmovilismo
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Black Gold, Little Trickle. This patched up things on the surface but did not solve the deeper politico-economic sickness that has plagued pro-U.S. President Betancourt and opened him to charges of inmovilismo-do-nothingness. Although black gold blesses Venezuela with Latin America's highest per capita income ($875), half the 6,894,000 Venezuelans live and hunger in squalid shacks. They wonder why the riches do not trickle down, and many view Betancourt as ineffective compared to their mental picture of onrushing Cuba...
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