Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attitude nevertheless was much more sensible than Reagan's jingoistic refusal even to consider that outright, unyielding ownership of the canal may no longer serve any vital U.S. interest. Indeed, insistence upon that ownership may produce only needless hostility between the U.S. and its remaining friends in Latin America and the Third World...
...this respect, students and many of the Afro faculty believe that the Afro-American Studies Department should be structured to deal with the languages and civilizations (literature, art, music, history, social studies) of all black people, especially in Africa, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America on an equal basis. We contend that the history of black people goes back several thousands of years and that even the experience of the black people in the United States should be studied in that context. We resent being regarded as a people without roots whose worthwhile existence and experience...
...their counterparts in Uruguay and Argentina, would simply demand that a huge ransom be paid by the company's big (1975 sales: $2.2 billion) Ohio-based U.S. parent. Instead, the Niehous case brought a new dimension to the political kidnapings that have been plaguing businessmen, particularly in Latin America. Indeed, it led last week to a startlingly abrupt-and arbitrary-government takeover of Owens-Illinois' three glassmaking factories in Venezuela...
...catalogue of dirty tricks. The actions of American corporations that led to an unofficial economic blockade and the sabotage of the CIA shrink, however, in comparison with the pervasive influence that the Pentagon has exerted on the Chilean armed forces, as well as the military elsewhere in Latin America...
Acting as a continental godfather, the American military has equipped, trained and educated armies in Latin America whose exaggerated prestige and lack of legitimate purpose leads them to rebellion. And they have rebelled. With the Argentine coup of last month, there are now only two South American nations--Venezuela and Columbia--with nominally civilian governments. Allende's failure to appreciate the extent of this American influence, shaping the military's new role, was largely responsible for his downfall...