Word: uruguay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation has been so cursed by bloody political convulsions that its own best people have pro nounced their homeland incurable. Julio Cortázar's novel, A Manual for Manuel, is one Argentine expatriate's eccentric response to violence in his country (and to some extent Uruguay and Brazil) in the early 1970s. Cortzar, who has lived in Paris for some decades, writes in a surreal fashion. The effects can be dazzling - as in All Fires the Fire and Other Stories of several years ago. Here, in a disjointed narrative, he gives a low-key, comic and rather...
...most of South America, political power is conferred by the barracks rather than the ballot box. Only two of the continent's Latin nations (Colombia and Venezuela) are Western-style democracies; Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile remain under more or less strict military control. In a few countries, however, the armed forces have been trying to ease their khaki embrace-so far with mixed results...
...countries as the United Nations (146 to 149) and probably more active communicants than any religion. Its officials claim that well over a billion people watched, in person or on TV, some part of the month-long World Cup, the eleventh such international competition (the first was held in Uruguay in 1930; 13 nations participated, and Uruguay won). Leaving aside the Chinese (who did not ante up for the TV rights), suckling infants and most women-soccer is almost exclusively a male delirium-this means that virtually every man and boy in Europe and South America, and very large numbers...
Most experts on modern terrorism agree that the danger in combating it is to fall into a repressive reaction-which is exactly what the terrorists seek to provoke-and thus undermine the democratic values that are under attack. In the 1970s. Uruguay, once the model of democracy in South America, succeeded in wiping out the leftist Tupamaros. The cost was great: the get-tough climate set the stage for the military to seize power and set up a dictatorship. The dilemma of how to cope with terrorism is not lost on any European government these days. Spanish Premier Adolfo Suarez...
...same advantages could be applied to Chile, Argentina or Uruguay, of course. What sets Costa Rica apart is the fact that, outside of a McHale's Navy consisting of three gunboats, it maintains no armed forces beyond the civil and rural guards. That largely precludes the possibility of any man on horseback seizing power by force. With no external enemies or guerrilla problem to deal with, Costa Ricans feel no need for armed muscle. Shrugs Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio: "If we spent money on arms, we would probably have a smaller per capita income...