Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once upon a time in Tennessee I had a high school Latin teacher: Miss Martha Shelton Davis. We used to be terribly clever and call her Mattie behind her back. Like the rest of my classmates, I hated her daily for four straight years...
...undertook an extended mission to Latin America for Nixon in 1969. While he courted fascist dictators in their palaces, he was vilified in the streets--and that puzzled...
...Brazilian generals who toppled the elected government of liberal president Joao Goulart in 1964 were a new breed of militarists. Episodic military rule had punctuated the history of Latin American nations in the century and a half since independence, but the generals had usually withdrawn after a while and allowed at least a semblance of parliamentary democracy. But the Brazilian "gorillas" were different. They dissolved all political organizations, banned labor unions, suspended civil liberties, filled the jails, and sat back comfortably, smugly confident that skyrocketing U.S. aid and investment would foster economic development and undercut the sources of rebellion...
...edge, would finance the construction of factories and cities, give birth to stable urban working and middle classes, and thereby reduce the threat to U.S. domination of the country posed by men like Fidel Castro leading rural peasants to power. Representative democracy was the optimal form of government for Latin American nations, but the United States has had few qualms dealing with even the harshest military dictatorships if American hegemony is protected...
BRAZIL was the first of a growing number of Latin American nations to fall under long-term military rule, a new form of political system characterized by a combination of repression, economic development aided by the United States, and urbanization. Uruguay, the site of State of Siege, was a nation with a long history of democracy: the military moved into power there last June. Peru and Bolivia have also been ruled by the new type of general, and Chile in the wake of September's bloody repression of President Allende's government, has fallen under the sway of the gorillas...