Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brazil increases its exports, it is now looking to other less-developed Latin American countries to provide markets, sources of raw materials, and sub-spheres of political influence. Brazil was the only country to send troops to support U.S. marines in the Dominican Republic in 1965. Brazil gave aid and material support in 1971 to General Hugo Banzer's Bolivia. Brazil's interests in Bolivia include one of the largest iron-ore deposits in the world and natural gas and petroleum deposits. General Stroessner, recently elected president of Paraguay, signed a treaty in May 1973 with Brazil rather than...
...General Coute e Silva, former head of National Information Service and presently president of Dow Chemical in Brazil, said: "Because of its geographical position, Brazil cannot escape the North American influence. Therefore, it has no alternative than associating itself consciously with the mission of the United States in the Latin American continent...
...Brazil and Chile demonstrate, U.S. business mechanisms for the control and exploitation of Latin America are becoming more efficient. It's no wonder that other Latin American countries reacted negatively to President Nixon's welcome to Brazil's President Medici in 1971: "As Brazil goes, so will go the rest of that Latin American continent." The future of Brazil's present government depends on its relationship with the United States. For the people of Brazil--as in Chile and throughout Latin America--U.S. involvement has only prevented social and economic equality
...spectacular series of raids and kidnappings, including a 1969 abduction of the American ambassador which forced the dictatorship to free 15 political prisoners. Marighela himself was shot to death by Brazilian police in late 1969, but his writings survived him and have guided urban guerrilla organizations in other Latin American nations...
...party he had led and a set of tactics he had helped develop? The reasons underlying Marighela's abrupt swerve from left tradition can be traced to the transformation in the character of Brazilian political life the dictatorship represented, a transformation that foreshadowed similar metamorphoses in other Latin American nations...