Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asylum issue involves about 40 associates of ousted President Fulgencio Batista, the dictator who took refuge in Latin-American embassies in Havana when the Batista government fell...
Castro's government has refused safe conducts to those it considers refugees from justice. This has aroused opposition in the capitals of Latin America, where the right of asylum and safe conduct is traditional...
...heartwarming experience to view the photographs of the Castro executions. Latin American politicos for the most part are graft-ridden, selfish individuals, and it is a good omen to see youth and virility in the figure of a man like Castro. He is justified in being irritated with the condemnation of his "war criminal" trials. Wishy-washy humanitarians in this country (who lisp, ''My, isn't he awful? He must stop that.") must make Castro laugh...
...Latin American custom, any graduate of a law school may use the title doctor...
...Middle Ages. The son of a witch doctor who claimed to have eaten human flesh, Boganda became a Roman Catholic priest, was unfrocked after he went to Paris as a Deputy and married his French secretary. A prosperous coffee planter and shrewd politician who likes to spout Latin phrases, he once gained enormous prestige by announcing just before an eclipse that he would perform the miracle of blotting out the sun. His dream is of a "United States of Latin Africa" embracing all of French Equatorial Africa, as well as parts of Portuguese Angola and the Belgian Congo. Of Africa...