Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction in Latin America would be dramatic. Countries on the coast of Latin America that depend heavily on the canal-Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela-have privately advised the U.S. that they have some misgivings about eventual Panamanian control. But publicly they would doubtless join the rest of the continent in denouncing the U.S. for a breach of faith. Certainly the rejection would sour American relations with Latin America and intensify distrust and hostility...
Failure to ratify would also be a gift to America's worst enemies. Latin America's left wing opposes the pact because it ensures a U.S.-Panamanian partnership for the foreseeable future and, perhaps more important, because it eliminates a major source of antagonism between the U.S. and its southern neighbors. Notes the Buenos Aires Herald: "The Latin American left is clearly dismayed at the emergence of an agreement which may prove satisfactory to most Latin American opinion, ranging from the center left to the center right." If the Senate were to reject the pact, the Latin left...
...very easily, say the people who should know: the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They believe it is in the national interest to cede control of the waterway. Acting alone, surrounded by a hostile population not only in Panama but in the rest of Latin America, the U.S. would need an estimated 100,000 troops to put down a determined guerrilla effort. And even that sizable a force could not seal off the waterway's lock mechanisms, dams and power plants from some kind of sabotage. A band of skilled terrorists, for example, could approach the Gatun Dam through...
...Panama Canal treaty is no historical accident, no caprice of idle statesmen. It has been twelve long, arduous, ruminative years in the making; it is an idea whose time has come-and whose time may be running out, given the objection to the treaty among many Latin Americans, especially in Panama. Strongman or not, Torrijos is faced with opposition, chiefly radicals who are considerably farther to the left than he is. If the treaty is not ratified, if trouble breaks out in Panama, it will be all the harder to draw up a subsequent pact in an atmosphere of mutual...
...Montoneros. Once a neo-Peronist youth group-the name means bushfighters-the Marxist Montoneros of Argentina were responsible for many of the random murders and kidnapings during the regime of Isabelita Perón. The military junta has mounted a countrywide war against these archetypal Latin American guerrillas, whose goal is to take over the government. At least 9,000 Montoneros have been killed or detained by police. But an estimated 12,000 remain at large, and their leaders-Mario Firmenich, Fernando Vaca Narvaja, Horacio Mendizabál-have close contacts with the Palestinians. The Montonero slogan: FATHERLAND OR DEATH...