Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LATIN AMERICA A Chance to Create The Organization of American States has long been a deeply troubled and largely ineffective body. At no time were its problems more visible than when the OAS's 22 member nations set out last November to pick a new secretary-general to replace Uruguay's retiring Jose A. Mora. What seemed like a simple task dragged on through three months of petty politicking, bickering and name-calling. Last week, the OAS finally settled on the man that it should have chosen in the first place: Ecuador's Galo Plaza Lasso...
...point, Student James Kellerman leaped up and loudly challenged him: "I am convinced you are either for radical social change or you are a liar. What radical programs are you for? Do you believe Latin American people have the right to rebel against dictatorships?" Nixon replied that he was all for "revolutions" in agriculture and education in Latin America, but added: "I don't want to blow countries up. I am talking not about marching feet but helping hands...
...three days and nights, while the Central Committee meeting dragged on in Havana, all Cuba buzzed with rumors. Was Castro stepping down or taking a new title? Was he planning to launch a new guerrilla offensive in Latin America? Would he announce some dramatic new economic program-one is certainly needed-for Cuba? Finally, in a special edition, Cuba's official party newspaper, Granma, announced the news: 43 "traitors to the revolution" had been arrested and would face trial for "intrigues" and "conspiratorial actions." That alone was not too surprising under Castro's oppressive regime, but Granma followed...
...each citizen of a "rich" country--the United States, Russia, Canada, Australia, Japan, and the developed Western European countries--was supported by about twenty times as much industrial and agricultural wealth as his counter-part in a poor country in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. More frightening, by the year 2000 the ratio will be about...
Other demands seem certain to hit snags. Congress has cut foreign aid and has shown little inclination to lower trade barriers. And the abortive attempt to form a Latin American common market offers little encouragement on the score of cooperation among the poor nations...