Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fuera Yanqui. Rockefeller's visit to Argentina last week launched his fourth fact-finding trip to Latin America in the past two months. By this week, when his odyssey comes to an end in Barbados, he will have swept through 20 countries, gathering raw material for the Administration's effort to reappraise U.S. policy in Latin America. In the making of foreign policy, the New York Governor's forays were without precedent, and duly deplored by some in Washington as exercises in frustration. In virtually every capital that Rockefeller visited, his arrival catalyzed longstanding Latin American resentments...
Rockefeller and the White House are convinced that his mission is worth the cost, if only because it dramatically exposes the deep strains in U.S.-Latin American relations. There can be little doubt that a new U.S. policy is needed. Latin America is a continent in ferment, dissatisfied as never before with the U.S. and itself. Indeed, there are pessimists like Sol Linowitz, former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, who believe that if the U.S. continues to ignore Latin America, it may some day face "a series of Viet Nams" south of the border...
Middle Class. Yet the elements of power are slowly changing. In the past three centuries, the only forces that mattered in any Latin country were the landed oligarchy, the Roman Catholic Church and the military. That triad still predominates, and only 10% of the people own 90% of the land. But there are cracks in the alliance. Recent years have seen the emergence of a new kind of military man-up from the lower or middle class, equipped with some technical skills, interested in efficiency and growth. Often he thinks he can run his country better than the sons...
...crushing farrago of problems? Nationalist governments could expropriate every American business on the continent, and the region's economic destiny would still be inseparably intertwined with and dependent on the U.S. Washington could funnel huge amounts of money southward, and little would be accomplished for the people of Latin America if the funds were siphoned off, as so often in the past, by the ruling classes. Neither extreme scenario, of course, is likely to be chosen-especially not the latter. The Nixon Administration's options are too limited by other crises abroad and at home. At $605 million...
There are, however, many changes that the U.S. can make in the way it deals with Latin America-changes that would produce both real and psychological benefits. The vast U.S. market should be opened more fully to Latin American goods. Nixon should seek to reduce congressional weight on the conduct of foreign relations, because the punitive legislation that Congress has enacted drastically reduces the President's room for maneuvering. Washington might consider channeling assistance through multinational agencies to avoid charges of political string-pulling. That would help mute the charge that the U.S. cares only about preserving the status...