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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-Nixon" Latin American emphasis and your excellent Muñoz Marin cover story [June 23]: many Americans, enchanted by the cultures of Spain or France, ignore or even deride an almost identical culture to their south. To a large segment of Americans, Mexico and the remainder of Latin America is represented by dives or semiliterate braceros. This is like judging the U.S. by Coney Island or Arkansas hillbillies. Unless we make an effort to understand and appreciate the rich, proud and nonmaterialistic culture of our southern neighbors we shall have lost a major battle of the cold...
...labor force of 636,000 have no jobs (v. 18% at present in Detroit). Main reason: the natural increase in population keeps pace with industrialization. "There is an old saying here that a man must do three things during life: plant trees, write books and have sons," sighs Muñoz. "I wish they would plant more trees and write more books...
Operation Serenity. Characteristically, Muñoz no sooner had Bootstrap going well four years ago than the poet in him came out. Was Puerto Rico turning materialist, losing its gracious leisure, abandoning its soul? Recalls a member of his staff: "He began talking about how industrialization was raising cities but destroying old values. He used to push a statue of Gandhi toward Moscoso while Moscoso was talking figures, rates, profits. One day Moscoso exploded: 'Stop shoving that statue at me! If I take it seriously, we will have no economic progress...
...result of such anxieties, Muñoz started Operation Serenity, "an attempt to give to economic effort objectives that commend themselves to the spirit." On a budget now running $315,000 a year, Operation Serenity restores old churches, houses and forts, rediscovers folklore and old music: Puerto Rico bursts with pride at being the home of such artists as Cellist Casals and the late Nobel Prizewinning Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. But Serenity has not eased the pull on Bootstrap. Muñoz finally came around to the belief that "we must live like angels and produce...
...turn, underdeveloped countries could profit from Puerto Rico by: ¶Replacement of hostility to private capital with an outright welcome, using tax incentives and hard-sell promotion. ¶ Official honesty; greasing endless palms frightens many businessmen. ¶ Sound planning and statistics. ¶ Playing down nationalism, working toward what Muñoz calls "the post-nationalist world...