Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state of emergency, and suspended constitutional guarantees for 30 days. At week's end it appeared that at least 100 people had been killed and 300 wounded in two days and a night of fighting and demonstrating. The rioting at times had been so fierce that some Latin American diplomats dubbed it el Limazo, a reference to the bloody riots known as el Bogotazo. which took place in Bogota, Colombia, 27 years...
...they are taught that abstracts like "love" or "pleasure" are supposed to be free of a setting--divorced from the social environment, a haven. So a romantic mixing with a bourgeols French woman who thinks she's liberated can only end in tragedy. A beautiful movie, worth seeing again Latin American Films. A festival of films sponsored by the Chile Action Group, all of them dealing with revolutionary struggle in Latin America, starts this weekend at Emerson Hall. First film is The Promised Land, made by Chileans in the final days before the September 1973 coup, about a peasant rebellion...
Scarcely a year ago, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger proclaimed the beginning of a "new dialogue" between the U.S. and Latin America. By last week, however, the dialogue had stuttered to an awkward halt...
...immediate cause was the new U.S. Foreign Trade Act. The act eliminates tariffs on about $750 million worth of Latin American goods, but excludes members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries from these benefits. OPEC members Venezuela and Ecuador are directly affected, though neither supported the Arab-led oil embargo...
Diktat Diplomacy. To many Latin Americans, the slap at Venezuela and Ecuador smacked of old-style U.S. diplomacy by diktat-no consultation, no negotiation. Twenty of the 24 members of the Organization of American States blasted the trade act as "discriminatory and coercive." Last week Argentine Foreign Minister Alberto Vignes announced that his country was postponing "indefinitely" the March meeting of OAS foreign ministers. Vignes was partly motivated by a reluctance to host a conference whose outcome-on the question of regularizing relations between the hemisphere and Fidel Castro's Cuba-was likely to fail. But the trade...