Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Castro returned the compliments, albeit with a bit more restraint. Appearing with Trudeau at a sugar refinery, Castro told a crowd of 25,000 how grateful he was that Canada had always "stood by Cuba"-meaning that Ottawa, unlike the U.S. and most of Latin America, had never broken diplomatic relations with Havana...
...sequence and the movie moves forward by inertia. In Z, first the lingering fate of the seriously injured central figure, then the unexpected slant taken by the prosecutor kept the excitement up. Here, the tension dies long before the prisoners do. And the irony, predictably, becomes heavy-handed. The Latin motto "Justitia", inscribed in mosaic on the floor of the Palace of Justice in Vichy is shown over and over again--to the point where the audience's intelligence is insulted...
...alienation of work under capitalism, and its perpetuation through excessive consumption and addictions and anti-social escapes. I explained how we export the worst of the exploitation to foreign workers, citing what happens in Puerto Rico and Taiwan (and, in the past, Shanghai, Havana, and Saigon). I described Latin American peasants who get a few cents a day growing coffee, yet have to buy their wheat from us; we keep governments in power there which force them to plant only coffee, so we can get it cheaply and control the wheat market. I spoke of guerrillas who want to overthrow...
...long claimed that he had met a mysterious Latin-looking man he knew only as "Raoul" in a Montreal bar after his escape. Raoul, Ray insisted, had planned the murder and given Ray money to buy a car and a rifle and to finance his travels. But Ray's brother Jerry told McMillan: "The whole thing about Raoul and running drugs from Canada was bullshit. He went to Canada the first time to look the place over, to see how to get out of the country...
...drive-in branches, banking by mail, extended hours. Prizes ranging from alarm clocks to television sets were offered to people who opened a new savings account. They held contests and saturated the home screen with come-on promotions. Big city and regional banks also expanded into Europe, Asia and Latin America, initially in order to serve U.S.-based multinational companies but later to provide a full range of banking services...