Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to be proud of whatever he wants, from Hitler to his grandmother. As for me and the majority of Chilean people, we are confident that in the long run "General Pinochet" and the junta will be considered just like another sad example of what has been called "the Latin American Gorilla," certainly a sorrowful stain for a country like Chile that has earned in 160 uninterrupted years the most solid democratic reputation of the continent. Juan L. Sepulveda
Perhaps Holmes best summarized his life when he quoted a line from a Latin poet on his 90th birthday...
...Congress barred Venezuela and Ecuador from receiving preferential tariffs because of their membership in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. By so doing, Kissinger feels, Congress hindered his attempt to shore up U.S. relations with Latin America...
Embargoes have seldom proved much of a barrier to the arms trade. Paris has readily ignored them, selling weapons to South Africa, Pakistan, India and Latin America when no other major exporter would. In the 1960s the U.S. tried to cool tensions in South Asia by restricting its arms
...timetable. They range from self-effacing defense ministry bureaucrats and eager military attaches earning regulation civil service salaries to the aggressive representatives of the private manufacturing companies, whose salaries and bonuses often reach six figures. One retired U.S. Army officer who brokered the sale of antiaircraft missiles to a Latin American regime is believed to have collected a commission of more than $4 million...