Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uruguay, may have seen their day. The reason, as Laqueur dryly notes, is that the decline of liberal democracy in many parts of the world makes it harder to be a terrorist. The Tupamaros, for example, began not under the heel of a dictator but in one of Latin America's most democratic nations. The membership, much of it privileged youth, successfully undermined the authority of Uruguay. The effect was to usher in a restrictive military regime that smashed the guerrillas with surprising ease...
...branches of every imaginable institution into the island: there are subsidiaries of the Rotary Club, of the pentecostal churches, of J.C. Penney's. The island has gotten just enough of the benefits of the American way of life to feel jealous of it and superior to the rest of Latin America. With the comforts of a consumer society, Puerto Rico has also gotten the problems: industrial society, highway proliferation, drug addiction...
Working in co-operation with department heads representing Africa and Asia, Pastor will focus on co-ordinating foreign policy issues towards Latin America and forming a policy towards the "developing world...
Pastor is not unfamiliar with the intricacies of foreign policy or the incoming Carter administration. He was staff director for the Commission on United States-Latin American Relations and he briefed President-elect Carter on foreign policy last summer while serving on Carter's foreign policy and defense task force...
Died. William D. Pawley, 80, financier, philanthropist and a former ambassador and special envoy to several Latin American countries; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Sunset Island, Fla. Pawley disclosed in the 1960s that President Eisenhower had sent him to Cuba in the final weeks of the Batista regime in an effort to persuade the dictator to abdicate in favor of a caretaker government. Batista refused, and Fidel Castro took control of the country...