Word: mayorga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economics student from Nicaragua, were on an OAS fellowship, had sharp words to say about American Latin American policy. Roberto Mayorga, "a member of the revolutionary party" in Nicaragua, accused the U.S. of catering to the Somoza dictatorship in his country. He said that fear of Communists often led America to ignore oppressive regimes in Latin American countries...
...Mayorga criticized U.S. embassies South of the border, giving an example of an action taken by "an ugly American" Nicaragua. Medical scholarships to Nicaragua were cancelled by the U.S. embassy there after some students had demonstrated before the embassy. also declared that economic and political reports prepared by the embassy Nicaragua were inaccurate, and called for a real exchange of information, rather than the biased accounts he felt the embassy is sending...