Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomacy, as in horse racing, sure things sometimes end up as also-rans. Before the start of last week's meeting in Quito of foreign ministers representing the Organization of American States, several Latin American diplomats were confidently passing the word that the OAS would vote to end the diplomatic and economic quarantine it slapped on Cuba in 1964. They were wrong. On the balloting, three nations (Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile) voted no, six (including the U.S.) abstained, and twelve were in favor-two less than the two-thirds majority necessary for passage...
...Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica, which had co-sponsored the Cuban measure with Venezuela and Colombia, was openly bitter. "We have helped the United States when they needed us," he complained, "but now that we need their help, they do nothing." After the Cuban proposal failed, some Latin American newspapers, and even diplomats, claimed that the OAS was dead. That clearly was not the case. However, as more and more Latin nations ignore the OAS embargo by recognizing and trading with Cuba, the organization's authority will inevitably be undermined. Venezuela, for example, is widely expected...
...past several years (TIME, Sept. 2). The pivotal difference at the Quito conference is the attitude of the U.S., which will conspicuously decline to lobby in favor of continued sanctions. The American policy shift was foreshadowed in a recent report by the independent but influential Commission on U.S.-Latin American Relations, headed by Sol Linowitz, former Xerox board chairman and Ambassador to the OAS under Lyndon Johnson. The commission's study firmly recommends an end to Cuba's isolation. It acknowledges that the Soviet use of the island as a strategic base is a legitimate U.S. concern...
...commission's report is equally trenchant on other Latin American matters. It contends that U.S. insistence on perpetual control of the Panama Canal jeopardizes its interests more than it protects them. It also urges formulation of foreign investment codes that would at once protect underdeveloped countries from exploitation and shield investors from arbitrary expropriation. In matters involving the OAS, the study recommends that "the U.S. should be guided primarily by Latin American initiatives," which is precisely the role that the U.S. will be playing in Quito...
Reports from such blue-ribbon committees are often duly noted by U.S. Administrations, then quickly forgotten. (Such was the fate of a 1969 Rockefeller Report on Latin America that criticized U.S. interference in the affairs of Latin American nations.) This time there is good reason to believe that Washington is paying attention; William D. Rogers, a Kennedy Democrat who helped draw up the study, is now Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and will be a leading member of the U.S. delegation to Quito. Rogers has said that he would like to see a normalization of relations with...