Word: latino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College, who taught at Chile's Universidad Catolica from 1937 to 1948. Writing in Notre Dame's Review of Politics, Weigel says that the Northerner believes that "life is for work, with the work occasionally interrupted with leisure so that future work be more efficient." To the Latino, "life is for leisure, interrupted occasionally with work so that leisure itself be possible." Latin American students in U.S. Roman Catholic universities, says Jesuit Weigel. are constantly complaining to him that Catholicism in the U.S. is "banal and too pedestrian. When a Latin American listens to a sermon, he wants...
...Spanish Americans, says Weigel, "are extremely intelligent as a group, quick in their perceptions and brilliant in their conceptions." The Latino also tends to combine the romantic loftiness of Don Quixote with the earthy unscrupulousness of Sancho Panza. He has genius for wholehearted friendship, and this is what U.S. statesmen should appeal to. But "on the level of mundane existence he is prone to be a refined or crude sensualist. He needs material things for life, but he is not squeamish how they are to be acquired. Since leisure, high speculation and ecstacy mean so much...
...current U.S. policies. But he was not intransigent; he told his press conference that "our policy must constantly be adapted to new situations. But I do not believe there is anything basically different that we can do." Dulles pointed out that if the U.S. began drawing distinctions between Latino governments "on the basis of whether they were dictatorial or not," it would violate "one of the cardinal doctrines for this hemisphere . . . noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries...
...Latino press, Nixon's stand for revision was enough to transform him into a hemisphere hero. Said Caracas' El National: "Nixon [did] not lose sight of the vast problems of Latin America, which have nothing to do with Communism, and Nixon has moved a large section of North American opinion." Said the Mexico City weekly Siempre: "We stand with Mr. Nixon...
Both the Soviet sweet talk and the Latino sour pointed up the fact that Communist influence in Latin America has waned during the past decade. The only pro-Communist government in postwar Latin America, the Arbenz regime in Guatemala, collapsed in 1954. Communist parties are now illegal in 15 out of 20 Latin American republics. Only three south-of-the-border countries (Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay) maintain diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Communist-bloc trade with Latin America, though expanding, amounted in 1955 to less than 5% of U.S.-Latin American trade, and Red performance on promises was ragged (TIME...