Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger trip, moreover, comes at a time of new irritations in Latin America. There is a feeling in the area, as in the rest of the world, that congressional-Executive Branch quarrels in Washington have set U.S. foreign policy adrift. Many Latin Americans are also wondering whether the U.S. will help if Fidel Castro's Cuban expeditionary forces try to repeat their Angola performance closer to home. Then too, last week's trip came just after disclosures of illegal payoffs in Latin America by such multinational giants as Lockheed, Gulf and Occidental Petroleum...
...with these issues. Addressing a symposium of diplomats, academics and businessmen in the seaside resort of Caraballeda, Kissinger promised U.S. action in six areas. These include greater U.S. aid through the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank, help in stabilizing commodity prices, and cooperation with the Latin American Economic System (SELA), a plan for regional economic cooperation founded last year...
...Kissinger's trip was an important boost to the Latin Americans' sense of their own growing importance. But, as some local observers were quick to point out, the favorable mood will have-to be followed by concrete action. They place emphasis on such difficult is sues as the behavior of U.S. multinationals, the unfavorable balance of trade that most hemisphere nations have with the U.S., and actual aid to the region for economic development. As one Peruvian newsman put it, "Kissinger's visit has been brief and hurried, like a doctor's call. But the real...
...course of his Venezuelan speech last week, Henry Kissinger promised to negotiate differences between the U.S. and its Latin-American neighbors "with parity and dignity." As proof of his good intentions, the Secretary of State noted that the U.S. and Panama "are continuing to move forward in their historic negotiations on a Panama Canal treaty to establish a reliable long-term relationship between our two nations." Kissinger's Latin listeners, who unanimously support the return of the canal to Panama, were attentive but skeptical...
Until now military experts have opposed proposals to reduce U.S. bases in the canal from 14 to three and eliminate the Army's inter-American training school. The school has trained officers from all over Latin America, but is criticized by leftists for its anti-guerrilla courses...