Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they related the need for more American investment capital, both private and governmental, the end of discriminatory tariffs and of quotas for their exports. They expressed concern over the moribund Alliance for Progress, since 1961 the principal vehicle for U.S. aid to Latin America. Congress cut Alianza funds that Lyndon Johnson had requested from $625 million to a disappointing $336.5 million, and Nixon has publicly criticized the program's performance. At each stop, Latin leaders recited the litany of the region's social problems from illiteracy and overpopulation to the need for agrarian reform...
...more than 20 technical advisers are not on the road in order to make any recommendations themselves, but simply to gather suggestions from their host counterparts. The only message that Rockefeller has brought is: the United States alone cannot provide unlimited amounts of dollars needed to bring Latin America from the burro age to the jet age. "I am asking you to suggest other ways that we can help," he said...
...cancer. Drag was a delightful little man, a creole who spoke little English that was intelligible, and a lot of creole French that no one understood but him. He had grown up--like many New Orleans jazzmen--in a French speaking family, and seemed to personify the blend of Latin and African cultures which had made New Orleans and its music so unique...
...leftist activist named Raúl Sendic, who has been underground for years, is thought to be the leader of the Tupamaros. Economic discontent has undoubtedly helped the movement grow. A welfare state that assured its citizens full pay after retirement at the age of 55, Uruguay, once Latin America's richest nation, has seen its economy slide downhill for more than a decade. In 1967 alone, the rate of inflation was 135%, and the government ran short of retirement funds. Tough, recent measures taken by Pacheco Areco have slowed inflation to just over 6% for the past nine...
...political institutions to solve such national problems as war, race and poverty. As a result, the university is losing whatever neutrality it professes. In pushing it toward social action, students are helping to create a new U.S. institution: the political university. It is a dangerous role for universities. In Latin America, where universities have long been "politicized," most higher education has suffered badly. Moreover, extremism on the left has historically led to a counterextremism from the right, as it did in Germany in the early 1930s...