Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solution to the problem, according to Valdez, might be for the United States and other developed nations to provide more foreign aid to the Latin American countries that are already partially developed...
...Most World Bank money goes to the low-income areas," he said. "Except for the poorest countries, Haiti, Bolivia and Honduras, most of Latin America is considered middle-income," even though the per capita income is not much above the $500 level that the World Bank uses for determining middle-income status, he said...
Anti-Somoza forces increasingly turned to armed struggle in the 1950s. But the invasions of 1948, 1954, 1958, 1959 and 1960 all resulted in military defeat. The Cuban Revolution inspired many popular guerrilla movements throughout Latin America. The 1962 founding of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) represented a new and greater threat to the Somoza regime. The Sandinistas, many of whom were young intellectuals, soon began to work among the peasants of the north, where they began to gradually build a mass base...
...counter the new wave of armed opposition, the U.S. stepped up its military aid to Latin American governments in the early 1960s. A few statistics help illustrate the extent to which U.S. aid has propped up the Somoza dynasty over the years...
...1970s Nicaragua received the greatest U.S. military aid per capita of any Latin American country...