Word: latino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help bewildered tourists and foreign officials. Even Mexican motorists have shifted attitudes. A jaywalker used to be maimed almost inevitably; now he can cross the street and get only a muttered curse from drivers. Contrasts are the essence of the Mexican scene. The highest skyscraper, the 43-story Torre Latino Americana, rises a scant six blocks from the vast Zócalo public square, fringed by the cathedral, begun in 1573, and the 17th century Palacio Nacional...
...nchez's declaration was a shocker on a number of counts. When he took command of the Governor's palace, La Fortaleza, Sánchez was eager to carry on his predecessor's social and economic development programs. He was just as anxious to end the Latino tradition of one-man rule in Puerto Rico. He set out to make the Popular Democratic leadership more popular, more democratic and younger; inevitably, he made enemies...
...they are now-the visit raised bright hope for renewed inter-American solidarity in the Johnson presidency. Dedicating a statue of Abraham Lincoln, a $150,000 gift from the American people, Johnson enunciated eight principles of cooperation and respect for hemisphere relations and offered to take part in a Latino summit conference to revivify the Alliance for Progress...
Spain is also anxious to restore itself as Latin America's godfather. The regime has opened its arms to Latino students, 15,500 of whom are now in Spanish universities. It sends books, trucks, heavy machinery and ships to a growing Latin American market, and Franco recently offered Spain's former colonies $1 billion worth of trade credits and technical aid. The motive ran deeper than merely promoting trade...
Long after the Alianza para el Progreso was launched in 1961, many Latin American governments clung to the convenient belief that it was just an other U.S. giveaway project. "It seemed well-meaning," as one top Latino puts it, "but rather Utopian and probably futile." Now, at last, that view seems to have changed. Last week, as diplomats and economists from a score of nations gathered in the Peruvian capi tal of Lima for the third annual full-dress review of the Alianza, there was encouraging evidence that most Latin American nations now accept its goals and are working...