U.S. BEGINS STUDY OF LATIN ISSUES

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• Publication Date: November 26, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

SAN DIEGO (Calif.)
UNION FOIAb3b NOV 6 1959
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/"?'No " replied advanced by Jorrin and Lieuwen: plied Jorrin, a native of Cuba but a naturalized-
The most significant political development in Latin U.S. citizen. "You will remember that Castro refused, to.
America since World War II has been the passing, in I permit Cuba to be run by a military junta.
much of the area, of political power from long-entrenched 1;. Both experts predicted a long period of unrest and`
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By DAVID IIIiLLYER
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Latin America Editor, The San Diego Union
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 25 arme ' by anger-
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went is calling on area-study experts for advice in fraxn
ing future foreign policy.
Two of these experts are -professors at the University i
dwin_Licuwen_,Both know Latin America --insteaa.'or, Inc year-w-year. Wife, zrtrnunum econor 4 j
intimately. programs,'.' they wrote "the United tates should develop
Jorrin and Lieuwen recently finished tine long-range economic assistance policies based less upon 1
first of.eight studies_,being,,financed by a a concern for'sound banking ..and business principles, I
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void analysis is titled "Post World Warr II upon the value to. [lie U.S. security position of Latin
Politica eopm l i ?Lati etjca " America's friendship and- cooperation."
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-"Seven more analyses are now in p
tion at universities. and other. research in- Care should be taken, Jorrin and . Lieuwen stressed,
stitutions throughout the . United-. States.
Each deals with a special aspect:! of U.S.-
Interviewed on the university campus here, Jorrin and
Lleuwen said they were "contracted last March to make
the study. Aided by two research assistants, they finished
their analysis in six months. It has just been published
by the Government Printing Office.
$inee 1954, a strong anti-militaristic, anti-dictatorial
current has been running in Latin America. It has swept
out all but four of the 13 military presidents ruling in'
1954. .
Since World War II, the aims of the United States and
Latin America have become inpreasingly incompatible.
The United States' has insisted that security of the i!
hemisphere against Cpmmunist threat Is the major con- {i
sideration in a common foreign policy. But Latin Ameri- i,
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appears seriously out of line with U.S. long-teri'd inter-
Therefore, "we recommend a disarmament program
ests.
for Latin America and abandonment of the use of military
programs as a means to win the political support of. the
Latin American military."
Jorrin and Lieuwen also recommended "that the Untied
States make more distinction between high-handed mili-
tary dictatorship and struggling civilian democracy."
This the United States could do, they asserted, by remain-
ing cool. toward dictatorships while warmly encouraging
democratic states.
U.S. economic aid in Latin America, they felt, ha*-
been inadequate.
outworn order.
"The United States should also be wary of granting
economic assistance to any military regime in Latin
America, for the experience of the past has demonstrated
that even when men-in-uniform have assumed leadership
of the social revolution, -they have shown little capacity
. Is Cuban Premier Fidel Castro of the "men-in-uniform",1
they agreed.-"The entire area is in the throes of a pain. ?
ful process of fundamental social, economic and political:
transformation."
Jorrin has been a member of the University of New-
Mexico faculty since 1944, and is director of the uni-
versity's School of Inter-American Affairs. He received
most of his education, including a doctorate in law, in
Havana.
Jorrin has published extensively on Latin American
affairs in U.S. and Latin American periodicals and en-
cyclopedias.
o!" 'A ornia. He was a Doherty Foundation fellow in
Venezuela in 1950-51 and a Fulbright lecturer in American
history at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands,
1953-54.
He served wit t Central Intelligence `Agen
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Was inn on.fo vg c ,s~pf g to Jo nln fTie university
staff in 19;j.
'Lletn~ven has made a special study of militarism In
Latin An ciea He has authored ug books on the subject,
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