Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cable dramatized his strong new stand as a pro-West world statesman. Until recently, he had taken pains to avoid offending his country's politically powerful supernationalists. and his government seemed to be drifting into murky neutralism. But after U.S. Vice President Nixon was stoned in Lima and Caracas, Kubitschek wrote personally to Ike to urge a rebuilding of Pan Americanism. He sponsored an International Investments Conference at Belo Horizonte, accepted resignations of several foot-dragging Cabinet members, replaced them with men dedicated to sensible collaboration with foreign capital...
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Carrying this theme further, the opinion takers asked a true-or-false question: Is the U.S. trying to dominate Latin America economically for its own benefit? The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima. 62% in Mexico City, 61% in Bogota, 51% in Montevideo, 71% in Buenos Aires. But apparently some of those who answered true were not overly outraged at the notion of U.S. economic domination. More than 58% of the people polled (as high as 81% in Bogota) said they felt that the U.S. was still a good neighbor...
...Latin Americans showed greatest interest in economic matters. Dictator coddling, a charge hurled at Nixon at every stop, was the chief concern of only 7% in Caracas, 5% in Montevideo, 2% each in Buenos Aires and Bogota, 1% in Mexico City and less than half of 1% in Lima...
...think Nixon's trip did more good than harm or more harm than good?" asked the poll takers. In every capital, at least a plurality voted for more good than harm-and in Lima, where stones flew, 72% voted approval of Nixon's visit...