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LATIN AMERICA. On Valentine's Day, Carter will hold talks in Mexico City with President José López Portillo. His aim: to begin work on an agreement for the U.S. to purchase Mexico's oil and natural gas, and to ease the strains caused by the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. In Nicaragua, meanwhile, months of patient U.S. diplomacy were thrown into question when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle last week rejected a U .S. proposal for internationally supervised elections aimed at ending civil strife over his rule...
That grisly prospect unleashed a torrent of anti-American rhetoric in Mexico. Said Congressman Salvador Reyes Nevares: "Our government cannot remain impassive in the face of this inhuman measure, which tramples on our dignity." President José López Portillo called the fence-building "a discourteous, inconsiderate act." Editorial Writer Yolanda Sierra in Mexico City's daily Ovaciones dubbed the fence "a tortilla curtain...
...agenda for that 1968 conference was loaded with progressive and radical thinkers, among them a Peruvian priest, Gustavo Gutiérrez, who later wrote the influential A Theology of Liberation. But since 1972 the secretary-general of CELAM has been Bogotá's Auxiliary Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo, a staunch young conservative. With the Vatican's encouragement, López Trujillo cleaned out the secretariat, installing priests and laymen with considerably less enthusiasm for revolutionary political change...
...pez Trujillo and his allies in the hierarchy have the support of the Vatican, including Pope Paul, who fears repression of the church from Latin America's current regimes if Catholics too militantly press the case for a new social and economic order. In El Salvador, for example, two priests were killed and others were threatened with assassination by government-allied right-wing terrorists for espousing redistribution of property. According to Latin American experts in the Vatican, the Pontiff welcomed the zeal for social change that followed Medellin, but now feels that the emphasis has become too political...
...somnolence of Alfonso's court turned out to be hard on everyone. The orchestra, under Jesús López-Cobos, was at times embarrassingly inattentive. The Met's curtailed version of the court ballet was execrable, and Milnes, doubtless sick of climbing in and out of his throne, made the mistake of actually watching it instead of striking a rigid pose. One of the evening's genuinely endearing sights was his head turning with increasing confusion at botched patterns and fallen hats...