Word: interamerican
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carlos M. Villar, chief of operations in Brazil for the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB), plans to attend, seminars, audit economics and political science courses and write a paper...
...Cristobal, a firm founded and still partly owned by Costa Rican President José ("Don Pepe") Figueres. Says Figueres: "Vesco's investments here are very secure and creative. I can't understand the fuss." I.O.S.'s Fund of Funds allegedly plowed about $60 million into Interamerican Capital, a Costa Rican investment firm that could well serve as a vehicle in securing for Vesco a firm financial foothold in the country. For a time, Alberto Inocente Alvarez, a Figueres confidant, headed the company...
Familiar U.S. vacation spots like Las Vegas and Disneyland are getting their share of the new tourists, but traveling abroad is becoming the more fashionable vacation. The InterAmerican Travel Agents Society estimates that 16% of all U.S. travelers going abroad this year will be blacks, up from 5% in 1965. Canada and countries where blacks are established government leaders, such as Jamaica and Trinidad, are already favorite black vacation destinations. This year more U.S. blacks than ever will visit African countries. An increasing number of black travelers are also jetting to such varied places as Japan, Hong Kong, Spain, France...
Once in power, Armas returned the land, killed those new peasant owners who resisted, declared every union in the country illegal, and formed new ones with the help of AFL/CIO's ORIT (Interamerican Regional Lab-or Organization) and Batista's Cuban Confederation of Labor. ( Presna Libre, July 19, 1954, p. 3, cited in CRV, "Peasant and Worker Organization in Guatemala," p. 5) He promised entering foreign firms a ten-year tax holiday, and signed away oil exploitation rights for over half the land in the country. The oil law was presented to his new congress to ratify written in English...
Force Brig. General Carlos A. Rey, appointed a brother officer to the Presidency. He is Brig. General Roberto Marcelo Levingston, who has been serving as Argentina's representative on the InterAmerican Defense Board, headquartered in Washington...