Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transact. That night Ike gave a white-tie dinner for the visitors at the White House, met with Frondizi two days later to chat about U.S.Argentine relations. Frondizi, through an interpreter, firmly told a joint session of Congress that the U.S. should fight the threat of economic chaos in Latin America as positively as it would counter an attack "from an extracontinental power." In between engagements he calmly kept in touch with simmering trouble at home (see HEMISPHERE...
...year, "I am ready to recognize you as such." Castro, whose ego is easily big enough to include the hemisphere, said that Cuba, unlike Venezuela, had won a "true revolution," disintegrating the army and punishing the guilty. He seemed ready to play spiritual leader to similar upheavals all over Latin America...
...better life for Latin Americans, said Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi in Washington last week, is fundamentally up to the Latin Americans. To get it in Argentina, he is demanding hard work, sound money and conditions that attract productive capital. The U.S. officially agrees (it provided a major portion of a massive $329 million aid package last month), and this fact gives Frondizi's opposition -Peronistas and Communists -the chance to cry that he has "sold out" to Washington...
...charge may well provoke a wry smile in Frondizi -for he thinks that the U.S., far from "buying" any Latin American, neglects its obligations to its neighbors. Saying so, diplomatically but succinctly, to Congress and the press was his major mission as he visited the U.S. And even as he served as his people's advocate, his government had to fight back his misguided opponents at home...
Bonsai, since March 1957 Ambassador to Bolivia, has had to deal before with a thorny Latin American situation. In 1955, as Ambassador to Colombia, he was accredited to the government of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Distinctly not one of the diplomat types who deem it a simple duty to stay close to the boss, Spanish-fluent Philip Bonsai moved with ease among intellectuals and politicos in Colombia. Among them was Alberto Lleras Camargo, a leading Rojas oppositionist. Rojas put pressure on the State Department and the U.S. eventually withdrew Bonsai, but the urbane diplomat became a hero among Latin Americans...