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Ordaz hoped that it meant the beginning of a new era in Mexican foreign relations. After 55 years of a generally prosperous "continuing revolution," Mexico has become the stablest major state in Latin America and an outspoken independent in international affairs. But it has remained largely unconcerned about the five Central American republics south of its border...
Inevitably, less effort and less time have gone into the development of younger democracies. Latin America boasts half a dozen democratic regimes-at the moment. The stablest are Chile, with more than 40 years of fairly literate, honest politics, and Costa Rica. The others are Peru, Venezuela, Colombia and Uruguay, and they are all beset in varying degrees by violence and the threat of periodic coups. But at least at present, their democratic machinery is more or less intact...
Premier Thanom also eased another Sarit repression: out of Lardyao Prison came 15 Thai journalists who had been jailed for far-left political sympathies. Thanom can afford to be confident. Thailand today is Southeast Asia's stablest country, both politically and economically. A "constituent assembly" is currently drafting a new constitution, and Thanom is planning to hold parliamentary elections some time next year to set up a new civilian regime. Whatever the election outcome, to most Thais the voting will be an anticlimax after the election of Pook...
...uninterrupted by political tension following the recent death of Strongman Sarit Thanarat. Though a scandal involving Sarit's finances has been tossed into the lap of his successor, General Thanom Kittakachorn, and in the north a pocket of pro-Red outlaws persists, anti-Communist Thailand is still the stablest country in the neighborhood. But it would -have a hard time holding up amid the other falling dominoes...
Long-divided Socialists, Radicals, Popular Republicans and right-wing Independents, who had all opposed De Gaulle for his policy on Europe and on defense, and particularly for whittling away parliamentary prerogatives, were now in eager coalition. They were attacking the stablest government that France has had in this century, having themselves provided very nearly the worst; many of De Gaulle's opponents had served as revolving-door Premiers in the disastrous Fourth Republic-Antoine Pinay for nine months, Pierre Mendes-France for eight months, Pierre Pflimlin for 17 days...