Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...external debt in the neighborhood of $48 billion; 60% of our export earnings go to service that debt. The world price of grain has fallen by 20% to 25%, and because of that we have lost $850 million in potential income, despite a record harvest. Trade agreements discriminate against Latin America. We are having problems selling some of our products abroad. Yet to pay our debts we must have foreign currency, and to earn foreign currency we must export. An even greater problem for us is inflation. We inherited a budget in which the deficit constituted 16% of the gross...
...there are still those who are nostalgic for the old days. In the end, they will be defeated because people realize that social justice is found only in a democracy. But it is also necessary to understand that while we are encouraging this new wave of democracy sweeping through Latin America, there is still great risk, which is caused by the heavy foreign debt burdening many of these countries. They are underdeveloped; they are poor. Thus the debt is not just a financial but a political problem. To enjoy liberty, you must have a minimal level of subsistence...
...Central America: Our point of view is based on the principles of self- determination, non-intervention and support for the work of the Contadora group. We need a political solution in Central America. The issue is a complicated one for all the democratic countries of Latin America, even those farthest from the area, because it is one that polarizes societies. We cannot cast aside the security of the region for the security of the U.S. We must not have interference by any extracontinental power. We must avoid the idea that anyone can interfere in any given country. I think that...
...well as vital American interests in the Persian Gulf, is jeopardized as a result. The Soviets claim the right to have "fraternal" relations with Fidel Castro, whose rule they underwrite to the tune of about $11 million a day, but they accept no responsibility for his mischief making in Latin America and Africa. They insist on cosponsoring with the U.S. any negotiated settlement in the Middle East, while they continue to back the most radical Arab enemies of Israel. In Western Europe, they are trying, by a combination of political blandishment and military blackmail, to diminish and, if possible, supplant...
...Celik, according to Agca, who purchased four Browning 9-mm automatic pistols in Vienna, including the one Agca was to use to shoot the Pope. Since the attempt on Pope John Paul's life, Celik has been variously reported to be dead, secluded in Bulgaria or prospering in Latin America with a face altered by plastic surgery...