Word: rican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasizing the fact that Blacks do not compromise the majority of welfare recipients in America. A journalist who has spent much of his time in South American challenges the role of the multinational corporations in the exploitation of labor in the South American countries. Another student, a puerto Rican woman, adds that in America the system is set up to play minority groups off against one another, citing competition between Puerto Ricans and recently immigrated Cubans. Another students voices the need to correct "a theology that makes oppression okay." No twelfth-century monks these...
While in office, Manley experimented with what he calls a "third path" in the Caribbean. The political setup of the region gives a government two basic choices: the "Puerto Rican" model with virtually complete economic dependence on the United States and the Cuban example of reliance on Soviet support. Manley sought to place Jamaica somewhere between these two poles. He and the PNP set out to develop a mixed economy with an emphasis on socialist techniques within the framework of Jamaica's democratic political system Meanwhile, he pursued a vigorous foreign policy in concert with the burgeoning non alignment movement...
...plane at Juan Santamaría International Airport to the delighted shrieks of hundreds of schoolchildren, he knelt to kiss the ground in his now traditional gesture of blessing. Then, almost immediately, he got down to tough business. Instead of offering a perfunctory response to the welcoming address by Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge, the Pontiff used the occasion to set forth the major themes of his pilgrimage...
...Central American pilgrimage, John Paul offered his personal presence, his example, his courage. His words were those of comfort, hope, peace ? and on occasion rebuke. Some received his message with joy. Others rejected it with bitterness. But all, if only for a moment, stopped to listen. Said Costa Rican Archbishop Roman Arrieta Villalobos: "I think the word of the Pope is something indescribable, a force that I cannot explain in human terms. He is a man without armed legions, without cannons or machine guns. His force is the truth...
...meters high. The prisoners inside were always handcuffed, gagged and blindfolded. They were usually put in these cells for softening up, or for depersonalization. Sometimes they were foreign spies: Hondurans, Guatemalans, sometimes intelligence agents from the United States. I recall two U.S. agents who were shot. One was Puerto Rican; the other was from New Orleans. The Puerto Rican had been captured trying to get information on arms traffic between the Soviet Union, Cuba and Nicaragua. It was not so difficult to catch U.S. spies. The U.S. intelligence services always underestimated the Nicaraguan counterintelligence capacity...