Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians have developed surprisingly close commercial, cultural and personal ties with the country's tough, anti-Communist military government. Last August, Russian Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev visited Rio and signed a four-year $100 million credit agreement, making Brazil the biggest recipient of Russian aid in Latin America after Cuba. In Argentina, Soviet relations are almost as cordial with Strongman Juan Carlos Ongania's military government; total trade between the two has gone from $18 million in 1964 to $110 million last year...
Help for the Oligarchies. Cuba's Fidel Castro angrily seized on Dobrynin's embassy visit as proof of what he has suspected for some time: that the Russians are pursuing their own, quite independent aims in Latin America. "Not everything is rosy in the revolutionary world," Castro stormed in a three-hour harangue at Havana University. "Whoever helps the oligarchies where our guerrillas are fighting is helping suppress the revolution. What would the revolutionary Vietnamese think if we sent delegations to South Viet Nam to trade with the puppet government of Saigon...
Castro realizes all too painfully that his own campaign in Latin America-in the form of his vicious little "wars of liberation"-has been a dismal failure. Russia's new emphasis on broader trade and diplomatic relations can only further hamper that campaign. For their part, the men in power in Latin America see it as an opportunity to drive an even deeper wedge between Moscow and Havana, and possibly even get Russia to tone down Cuba's guerrilla wars. Venezuela's own Communist Party, for example, recently called for a "tactical withdrawal" from guerrilla...
...Cuba's second-in-command and the island's main contact man with Russia, had been replaced "temporarily" as armed forces minister. Since it is getting $1,000,000 a day in Soviet aid, Cuba could hardly afford a complete break. But the new Russian overtures in Latin America do show that there is a split, and the split is widening...
...engineer, who used royalties from an early invention, the Single Dial Tuning Control (now standard for radio receivers) to set up short-wave radio station WRUL near Boston in 1934, turned it into a forerunner of the Voice of America, countering Nazi propaganda in 24 languages beamed to Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa; after a long illness; in Old Greenwich, Conn...