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Ernest Rodriguez' "Impressions," 1960s-1980s
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It is high time the United States examines its fumbling foreign aid policy, especially as it concerns Latin Americans. At present, our foreign aid policy is too attuned to our policy of foreign relations which seems to revolve around an out-dated cold war aim of buying political and military alignment of so-called free-world nations to help check the spread of international communism. A number of these nations do not sharse our fears of communist aggression and, in fact, hold their own people under some form of militaristic or demogical subjection no better than the communist variety Some of them play a flirting game of wooing financial aid from our country and the Soviet Union. We should stop extending one hand in friendship and slipping them American dollars with the other hand to insure afirm handshake. This kind of hypocritical program of foreign relations is not lost on foreign governments or their people and will only earn the acorn of the people of those countries. The only kind of foreign policy that is going to keep underdeveloped and developing nations from turning to communism is an offer of our friendship without a price tag or bribe to offer them assistance not in monetary sums but technical and educational assistance of the kind carried our in the peace corps. Much more emphasis should be placed on the peace corps and much more money to finance the work of the corps. By Ernest Rodriguez
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It is high time the United States examines its fumbling foreign aid policy, especially as it concerns Latin Americans. At present, our foreign aid policy is too attuned to our policy of foreign relations which seems to revolve around an out-dated cold war aim of buying political and military alignment of so-called free-world nations to help check the spread of international communism. A number of these nations do not sharse our fears of communist aggression and, in fact, hold their own people under some form of militaristic or demogical subjection no better than the communist variety Some of them play a flirting game of wooing financial aid from our country and the Soviet Union. We should stop extending one hand in friendship and slipping them American dollars with the other hand to insure afirm handshake. This kind of hypocritical program of foreign relations is not lost on foreign governments or their people and will only earn the acorn of the people of those countries. The only kind of foreign policy that is going to keep underdeveloped and developing nations from turning to communism is an offer of our friendship without a price tag or bribe to offer them assistance not in monetary sums but technical and educational assistance of the kind carried our in the peace corps. Much more emphasis should be placed on the peace corps and much more money to finance the work of the corps. By Ernest Rodriguez
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