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UNCTAD is a case study in proliferation. It began as a trade conference in 1964, mainly for the benefit of the less-developed nations, and has since held only three conferences, the last one a five-week affair last spring in Santiago, Chile. So far, UNCTAD has written a convention recommending that developing countries be given increased trade preferences, and in 1968 concluded an international sugar agreement. Though its record is modest, UNCTAD has its own secretary-general, external relations division, office of administration, information unit, technical-assistance coordination unit, research division, trade expansion and economic integration division, commodities division...
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...there is a Pulitzer or other prize for the man who said it all in one sentence, it should go to whoever wrote of the UNCTAD in Santiago that "The conference presumes that the U.S. is a giant cow and that there should be a teat for every developing country in the world...
More than 400 self-proclaimed "Christians for Socialism," meeting in Santiago, Chile, last month, acted on Che's prophecy. They declared that the time has come for "a strategic alliance of revolutionary Christians and Marxists in the process of liberating the continent." Participants in the meeting, from all 28 Latin American countries, the U.S., Canada and Europe, were both Protestant and Roman Catholic; they were social scientists, missionaries, teachers, theologians, social workers. Some were nuns. The majority were Roman Catholic priests. One bishop took a leading role: Don Sergio Mendez Arceo of Cuernavaca, Mexico...
...what extent were the Santiago activists speaking for their Christian brethren throughout Latin America? In terms of numbers, radical Latin American clerics are a small minority everywhere. But in some countries, at least, they form a vocal, dedicated cadre determined to influence the masses through conscientizacion-"consciousness raising"-or as some now prefer, politizacion. Chile's radical priests' organization, which is led by Jesuit Gonzalo Arroyo, the congress organizer, is called the Group of 80-in a nation that has 2,500 priests. An Argentine priests' group, the Third World Movement, claims 400 members...