Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pressure the industrialized nations, through the good offices of the U.S., to grant trade concessions to the Latin American countries so that their main exports-coffee, sugar and copper-will no longer be adversely affected by wild fluctuations in world markets...
...Modernize farms so that Latin America will finally be able to feed its 243 million inhabitants and thus no longer be in the unhappy position of having to spend precious foreign exchange on food imports...
...Improve health, educational and scientific-training facilities throughout the hemisphere, with strong emphasis on programs that will wipe out contagious diseases and teach Latin Americans the basic skills required for industrial jobs...
...Eliminate unnecessary Latin American military spending on such costly prestige items as aircraft carriers and supersonic fighter planes in favor of buying cheaper counterinsurgency weaponry such as automatic rifles and armed helicopters...
...encouragement. He hopes to boost Alliance for Progress funds, which now amount to about $1.2 billion a year, by another $300 million annually for the next five years-but he made no major commitments at the conference. In fact, he extended only five offers: a pledge to finance a Latin American satellite-communications system, a promise to try to persuade the industrialized countries to grant trade concessions to less developed countries, a commitment to try to "untie" some U.S. aid funds so that the money can be spent for Latin American-made goods rather than in the U.S., an offer...