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...journeyed to Detroit last week to argue that their theology has a prophetic role in northern industrial societies. Sounding a recurrent theme, Peruvian Economist Javier Iguiñiz told an opening session at the conference that "the growth of capitalism is the same as the growth of world poverty." Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo, author of one of the movement's key works, A Theology for Artisans of a New Humanity, warned that the church, if it is to have any validity, "must become a function of liberation...
...soft on communism" and a potential trouble sport for U.S. policy. In the aftermath of the disastrous CIA-supported Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, the effort to isolate Cuba was at its height. Using the same basic tactics as in Ecuador, Agee worked to infiltrate the Uruguayan Left and the government in order to force a diplomatic break with Cuba. Once again the CIA was successful, as Uruguay imposed economic and political sanctions on Cuba in September...
...marriage was breaking up and he found himself increasingly disillusioned with his work in the CIA. Agee writes that he felt disgusted with the American Marine invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965. He says he was also deeply affected by hearing the screams and moans of an Uruguayan man being tortured by the police after Agee had reported him to be a member of a communist organization. In August of 1966 Agee returned to the U.S., where he was reassigned to Mexico under the cover of the Olympic Attache to the U.S. Embassy. But he had decided to leave...
Brazil, which is ideologically sympathetic to the Chilean and Uruguayan military-backed governments, nevertheless sees that there is no point in trying to block Cuba without U.S. help. Moreover, two of Castro's outspoken advocates in the OAS are looking more and more formidable. They are Mexico, with newly discovered oil reserves, and petroleum-rich Venezuela, which introduced the 1964 quarantine proposal but is now backing the movement...
...twin-engine Fairchild F227 chartered from the Uruguayan air force took off from Montevideo carrying an amateur rugby team and a planeload of friends and supporters to Santiago, Chile. Most never completed their journey. The plane slammed into a mountainside at an altitude of more than 11,000 ft. Of the 45 people on board, only 32, some critically injured, were alive the next morning...