Word: punta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south in 1873, Buenos Aires Bookkeeper José Menendez was struck by the region's trading possibilities; ships sailing around the Horn stopped to replenish, and Indians were ready to trade pelts, ambergris and even grazing rights for trinkets and tobacco. Menendez set up a trading post at Punta Arenas, a port and penal settlement, and became friendly with a German emigrant, Elias Braun, who farmed near by. In 1895 Braun's eldest son, Mauricio, married Menendez' eldest daughter, Josefina; joined to romance was a practical mixing of land and trade. La Anonima, now run by their...
Urgency Disappeared. Colombia's Lleras Camargo found more fault with the southern end of the Alianza. "The feeling of urgency that dominated the Punta del Este meeting disappeared immediately after the documents were signed," he said. The governments-"all of them"-have shown a lack of interest and have abdicated the responsibility that they were expected to share. Thus, instead of a grand alliance of equals, the program has degenerated into a standard series of bilateral aid agreements between the U.S. and each individual country of Latin America...
...Brazil will uphold its inter-American and Western alliances," promised Foreign Minister Dantas. But at Punta del Este, Uruguay, in January 1962, though he condemned a "Marxist-Leninist government in Cuba," Dantas refused to vote with a two-thirds majority of the hemisphere's nations to expel Cuba from the OAS. His performance so outraged conservatives at home that they blocked Goulart's attempt to make Dantas his Prime Minister. Goulart waited until last January, then made him Finance Minister...
...past conferences the U.S. had urged on its neighbors the need to confront Castro and Communism. Yet always before, the key nations of Latin America had ducked a commitment. Lingering prejudice against Yankee intervention and the fear of left-led masses back home turned last January's Punta del Este conference into a weary marathon. Patiently, Rusk had listened to the arguments from Mexico, Brazil and the others. Doggedly, he wheedled and compromised for endless days to win the necessary two-thirds majority (14 votes) for the blandest sort of condemnation of Castro's dictatorship. But this time...
Eventually, Rosenstein-Rodan went on, the U.S. accepted the nation of such an Alliance at Punta del Este--with the difference in basic thinking that change in social conditions is a precondition of development. The economist approved of this new requirement, but added that trying to promote equal distribution of income naturally costs far more and arouses more opposition than simply trying to make income grow...