U.S. BEGINS STUDY OF LATIN ISSUES

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• Publication Date: November 26, 1959
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SAN DIEGO (Calif.)4 40V ` ( 1959
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Date: NOV 261959
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U.S. Begins,
p 's dgresri U S prestige in Latin America, the govern;
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atl?n ssues CPYRGHT
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^^ "ew Mexico, Dr. Miguel Jorrin and hr.
e-c "instead of the year-to-Near bare rrFnimum econo c
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nthesls here are some of the conclus ns and "No," ? 1 Y
Tec "$YlYief fiti.ons-advanced by Jorrin and Lieuwe ,~, replied Jorrin, a native of Cuba but a naturalized
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U.S. citizen. You will remember that Castro refused to
e moo ican`f8liticaT development Latin permit Cuba to be run by a military junta.'
Ar Irica s orTd "90ar 17 has been the p ntren ' Both experts predicted a long period of unrest and
mil h of the area, of-Plitical power from long-entrenched crisis in Latin America.
elginen s fo the peo it iii general -fl-Atrtntnrial "The overwhelming problem in Latin America today
the stnyAMU Y of the social repo u
their? ariYsi"s"fn sfx months. It has just been oilseed for revolving their nat on's problems."
by the ovein neat p inting Office. Is Cuban Premier Fidel Castro of the "men-in-uniform" ,
were asked
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e on America, for t e e y
eyT were contracted last March o make that even when men-nuniform have assumed leadership
w research assistants, the finished I ti the have shown little capacity
mer
>,a ?i=u- 1.-ia?w _,Both know Latin
v..y. programs," they 'Wrote. "the United States show d eve op
intimately. long-range ecundinic assistance policies based less upon
Jorrin and Lieuwen recently finished tale a concern for sound banking and business principles,
first ofpeght studiebe>ng, financed by a
,- although these should by no mean be ignored, and more
ro riat, ion. Thei .34 000
1~1tp d F 'P Nair lI upon the value to the U.S. security position of Latin
word analysis is titled America's friendship ahd cooperafion.
Politica veld merits. in, Latin Aericd e
tieven more analyses are now in repara Care should be taken, Jorrin and Lieuwen stressed,
tion io s throughout s ,out and the_ ether Unitresiarell e te nf that "no aid Ts granted regimes bent on preserving an
stitution thr States. outworn order.
er Latin American relations. economic assistance to any military rggime in Latin
-v 'university campus here, J rin and h
erience of the past has demonstrated
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ent has been r ni11Tfg'in Latin America. It his swept; they agreed. "The entire area is in the throes of a pain
out alI but four of the 13 military presidents ling in ful process of fundamental social, economic and political
1954. - , ,.
s ~.w VVor.1a[-'Var Ti, the aims of the United States and tr.L for basobeen a member of the University of New
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been Ina equate.
i .. . .a. . While warmly encouragiig
i democratic states. cool 9 ,.aatorships Lttitin A ca. He has autho Almy b oks on the subject, I
Tn Latin ,
d ies
conomic aid in Latin America, the felt, ha? be . a'. e rm4 ando h
rIIF?1a: Land c3 till and Epaulettes."
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,orrin an cF Lieuwen also rec*6n mended "that the Un ed
r - He servp~ wL. .44> its, t e `A enc in
at ri~iake mode stinctio`n between high-handed li- ~ ~a@~ ffi~ `
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as 1 -1oC..a .FS ..al~.`Y:1-+.w-...1.,.,cF;.
tart' dictatorship and struggling civilian democracy
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'~`h ?te Uniedtates could do, they asserted, by reman- en has made a special study of militarism In
ests. Therefore .'weTyrecommend a disarmamen pr a nia. He was a Doherty ,Foundation fellow in
for Latin Amer is a and abandonment of the use of mil art' Venezuela in 1950-51 and a Doh Fulbright lecturer in American
programs as a inehfig to wiii'the political support o the history at the University of Utregfit, the Netherlands,
atin American military." 1953-54
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atin America have' become increasingly incoippatible. A
.. Mexico faculty since 1944, and is director of the uni-
e United States 1i as 'insisted that security of the , versit 's School of Inter-American Affairs. He received
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ileifi1sp'here' a' ains omi tzl ist threat is the major con- Y
?sideration in a common foreign policy. But Latin Ameri- , most of his education, including a doctorate in law, in
cans have` been"-' a'r4=more concerned with their Havana.
Jorrin has published extensively on Latin American
affairs in U.S. and akin Amerin' periodicals and en-
em
gr6wingplng.
1Ylilif~ry emphasis in U.S. policy toward Latin America c clo edias.
appears s rlously out f tine with U.S. long-term, inter- Y
ram ieuwe ds a doctorate in history from the University
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