Word: inter-american
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...gained the upper hand, Lechin chose semi-exile as Bolivia's Ambassador to Rome. Paz then set about reorganizing the nationalized mines that normally produce 90% of the country's export income. To win $35 million in foreign help (from the U.S., West Germany and the Inter-American Development Bank), Paz reformed the mine management, reduced the power of the unions, and boldly fired more than 1,000 unneeded miners...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15--President Johnson has apparently decided to upgrade the post of assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs in a move to boister the efficiency of American policy in Latin American countries. Johnson selected Thomas C. Mann, now ambassador to Mexico, to fill the post yesterday...
...criticized United States efforts to aid Latin America. The Alliance is ineffective, he argued, because it is improperly managed; in other words, the United States Agency for International Development mishandles the billion dollars a year that the Alliance funnels into Latin America. He called for the establishment of an inter-American fund bank to replace the Alliance. This bank would be financed largely by the United States, but its direction would be entirely Latin. "Today, and each day more so," Goulart stated, "Latin America should present to the world a united, solid cohesive front in the collective defense...
...State Department prohibits American students from traveling to Cuba because it is in the best interests of the Hemisphere, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs said last night...
...mines that provide 90% of Bolivia's exports. Under state management, however, payrolls became featherbeds and machinery wore out. The once-rich mines now lose an average $8,500,000 a year. Only lately has Comibol, the government mining company, reached an agreement with the U.S., the Inter-American Development Bank and West Germany for a $38 million modernization of the tin industry-provided Comibol reduced its padded 27,000-man payroll. Last August, when the first 1,015 workers were laid off, the Communist-infiltrated tin workers' union staged a nationwide tin strike. Paz refused to bend...