Foreword
FOREWORD THIS is a report on the eight-month trip my wife and I took to Latin America in 1957-58, under the auspices of the State Department exchange of specialists program. We visited 15...
...We lectured or held seminars, round-table discussions and conferences in 36 cities, including most of the university centers south of the Rio Grande...
...The U. S. Embassies, Consulates, ICA missions, information services and binational institutes generously helped us in establishing contacts with local people and gathering printed materials...
...We visited 15 countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Haita, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador...
...Their friendliness and hospitality made our trip a unique experience...
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...they did not resent our criticism of the policy of their governments...
...I would like to use this opportunity to express, in the name of my wife and myself, our warm gratitude to all who helped us in the Latin American countries...
...Local officials and intellectuals were equally generous in the frankness with which they discussed their problems with us...
...We did not resent their criticism of U. S. policy...
...In all these cities we met with economists, Government officials, journalists, businessmen and labor leaders...
Vol. 41 • November 1958 • No. 43
