Word: yanqui
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...America. The mood finds its main outlet in anti-U.S. economic moves. Last year total U.S. investment in the continent hardly increased at all from the $9 billion level reached in 1968. In most of the countries along the west coast, today's most inhospitable region for Yanqui enterprise, private U.S. investment is actually declining, reports TIME Correspondent Mo Garc...
...nationalism to be particularly confused, erratic and emotional. Though aware that their countries need foreign investment to thrive, Latin ruling cliques have made much political mileage out of complaining that U.S. investment amounts to "economic imperialism." To demonstrate their independence of the U.S., some governments harass Yanqui enterprises while soliciting foreign investment elsewhere. As U.S. businessmen turn cautious, the Soviet Union is expanding its trade and technical aid to much of the continent. The current investment climate in major nations...
...Mexican airport greeted us with a heavy dose of colonial atmosphere: Yanqui colonial atmosphere. Dark-skinned Mexicans handling the bags, light-skinned Mexicans behind the counters in ties and jackets speaking English. Multinational corporate fingers all over-Avis, Hertz, Coca-Cola, Haig and Haig. The FBI hit us at customs with lots of Nikons and flashbulbs, stood us up against a wall in groups of five and then got our names and addresses down. After all this we almost ran onto the Cubana Airlines DC-7 (left over from Batista's regime) for the flight to Havana...
...needs of the population of the capital city and the surrounding province. Havana Province historically has been an economic burden on the rest of the nation. One out of every four Cubans lives in the Province: but before 1959 it was always completely underdeveloped agriculturally since Cuba's Yanqui corporate chieftains preferred to invest in the vast expanses of the other less-populated provinces. The purpose of the Green Belt is to change that situation. In a decade Havana Province will be self-sufficient in most foodstuffs. Much of the work in the Green Belt is being done voluntarily...
...Fuera Yanqui. Rockefeller's visit to Argentina last week launched his fourth fact-finding trip to Latin America in the past two months. By this week, when his odyssey comes to an end in Barbados, he will have swept through 20 countries, gathering raw material for the Administration's effort to reappraise U.S. policy in Latin America. In the making of foreign policy, the New York Governor's forays were without precedent, and duly deplored by some in Washington as exercises in frustration. In virtually every capital that Rockefeller visited, his arrival catalyzed longstanding Latin American resentments...