Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miami in 1960, he earned a reputation as a fanatical exile activist. He was jailed in Miami in 1968 for a bazooka attack on a Polish ship that traded with Cuba, then paroled from a ten-year sentence in 1972. Bosch jumped parole two years later to wander through Latin America, organizing anti-Castro actions and dodging arrest. Earlier this year, Bosch played a central role in evolving CORU's terrorist strategy. "People compulsorily cut off from freedom," Bosch says, "have a right to use any means to regain their liberty...
With his fictional Colombian town of Macondo, Garcia Márquez created a Latin American Yoknapatawpha in which grubby fact and mythological fantasy mingled into what can loosely be called magic realism. His new novel is a more circumscribed, grimmer and more obscure work. Its setting-mainly the presidential palace of a nameless South American country-shows a little less Faulkner and a little more Kafka. The Castle, with a high temperature-humidity index, comes to mind...
Regardless of the outcome of the appeal, he will proceed with a suit he has filed on behalf of 12 Cambridge residents opposed to the construction of the high school, which is planned to replace Cambridge High and Latin...
Panamanians were furious. Moreover, Carter's position ran counter to his promise to improve U.S. relations with Latin American countries, which, for the most part, regard the zone as a distasteful vestige of U.S. imperialism. At a lunch with Latin American diplomats the next day, Kissinger went out of his way to reassure them that Ford's policy on the canal has not changed...
...originate with Kissinger. The defense of the U.S. economic empire abroad has been a consistent aspect of our foreign policy for decades, from interventions in China at the turn of the century to the CIA-organized coup in Iran in 1953, from Teddy Roosevelt's "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America to the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. In 1935 Major General Smedley Butler said...