Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before the U.S. election, the story went, the Foreign Minister of an unnamed Latin American country was wondering about the outlook. For an informed view, he turned to the U.S. Ambassador...
Last week, with the military revolutions in Peru and Venezuela fresh in mind, more than one Latin American capital was jittery about how the cavalry would vote. Latest to buzz with alarms and rumors was Quito, capital of Ecuador, where President Galo Plaza Lasso was tiffing with his own party (Movimiento Civico Democrático National). Hottest rumors: 1) army officers were angry over slow promotions; 2) aviation officers were angry over delayed pay raises; 3) Socialist leaders were trying to organize an anti-government movement among noncoms. TIME'S Quito correspondent cabled: "The government is not shaky...
...inquiry into the biggest question of all: Who, if anyone, had inspired and financed him? But from bits & pieces, fitted together, Prosecutor José Nogues bluntly tagged the plot "Made in Argentina." Said he: "The subversive movement . . . was inspired from Argentina and intimately synchronized with similar movements in other Latin American countries...
...President Romulo Gallegos, who flew off to exile in Cuba, blamed last fortnight's coup on 1) "powerful forces of Venezuelan capital lacking in social awareness"; 2) foreign oil interests; 3) the "scant attention the U.S. is paying toward Latin America"; 4) an unnamed foreign government. Said he: "There has occurred in Venezuela one more action like those which our democracy [throughout the Americas] has been suffering. Who is the director of this machine of oppression set on the march in our continent? What is the meaning of the notorious presence of a military attaché of a foreign...
Northward Ho. By this season's end, there were few upper or middle-class Cubans who had not visited Florida or were not planning a visit. Other travelers from Latin America had joined the northward trek, especially from Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, but three out of four of Miami's southern tourists were Cubans...