Word: ricas
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...Chileans living and studying in Massachusetts, together with such wide and representative organizations as. The World Council of Churches. The Organization of American States. The Catholic Church of Santiago. The World Bank Review The United Nations, Amnesty International, and the Governments of Mexico, Sweden, Germany, England, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Italy (among others) have a very different view of contemporary Chile from the one held by Nicolas Bilbikopf (The Mail, January...
...passing involvement in the Administration's marketing of ambassadorships. During a House hearing in July, Nixon's lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, recalled being told by Flanigan to get in touch with a department-store millionairess, Ruth Farkas, because "she is interested in giving $250,000 for Costa Rica...
...vote may have hurt the U.S. and the OAS more than Cuba. Earlier, there had been favorable reaction to the new hands-off U.S. policy, which Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs William D. Rogers described at Quito as "healthy." But Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica, which had co-sponsored the Cuban measure with Venezuela and Colombia, was openly bitter. "We have helped the United States when they needed us," he complained, "but now that we need their help, they do nothing." After the Cuban proposal failed, some Latin American newspapers, and even diplomats, claimed that...
...American States as "the whorehouse of imperialism." His acerbic judgment was presumably reinforced by the diplomatic and trade quarantine imposed on Cuba by the OAS three years later. Now, though, Castro may well be in a mind to revise his opinion. Last week OAS members- notably Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia-were lobbying for an end to the economic and political isolation of Cuba. When the foreign ministers of the organization meet in Quito this week, it is virtually certain that the required two-thirds majority of the 23 voting members will agree to drop the sanctions...
Unless Mozambique is willing to accept a marked decline in living standards, it needs the $300 million that South Africa annually pours into its economy through export transits, tourism and remittances from the 100,000 Mozambique workers who make up roughly 25% of South Af rica's mining force. South Africa has also signed a ten-year contract to buy power from Mozambique's $400 million Cabora Bassa Dam, which begins operations later this month...