Word: venezuela
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Parity and Dignity. Kissinger's main objective was to persuade Latin Americans that the U.S. really does care, but not everyone was convinced. In Venezuela, one columnist noted sarcastically: "During the past few days, certain government officials have been very excited. We can't tell whether to attribute the excitement to the visit of Henry Kissinger or the visit of Raquel Welch." Colombia's left-wing weekly Alternativa, arguing that Kissinger was not coming to negotiate but to impose conditions, ran a full-page cartoon of the Secretary declaring, "The Guatemala earthquake was just a warning...
...change of perception" on Latin America since the days when he put the region at the bottom of his list of international priorities. He has apparently come to feel that Latin America's problems are an important part of the larger U.S. relationship with the Third World. Venezuela is a major oil exporter. Brazil and Mexico are experiencing rapid economic growth. As a whole, the continent has supported the Third World's clamorous demand that the industrialized countries provide more aid to the poorer countries...
Arriving in Venezuela on the first stop of his tour, Kissinger lost no time outlining a detailed American program for dealing with these issues. Addressing a symposium of diplomats, academics and businessmen in the seaside resort of Caraballeda, Kissinger promised U.S. action in six areas. These include greater U.S. aid through the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank, help in stabilizing commodity prices, and cooperation with the Latin American Economic System (SELA), a plan for regional economic cooperation founded last year...
Kissinger's 39 hours in Venezuela included a tire-squealing 60-m.p.h. climb from the sea-level airport up to Caracas, where Kissinger placed a wreath at the Simon Bolivar shrine. "Your Secretary of State is a Yankee torbellino [whirlwind]," marveled one Caracas motorcycle cop. Near the end of the visit, a local journalist asked President Pérez if Kissinger had broken the ice between the two countries. Pérez's reply: "Ice doesn't grow in tropical countries...
...Venezuela, Alberto Flores, No. 2 man in the country's delegation to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, resigned his post in order "to be free to defend himself." He is suspected of being among seven officials who allegedly accepted a bribe from Occidental Petroleum Co. in return for drilling concessions...