A NEW LOOK AT LATIN AMERICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400180017-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: July 8, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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U. S,.News or d e nor
A SEW LOOK AT LATIN AMERIcA-
How Bright the Future
interview With Dr. Preston James,
Professor of Geography, Syracuse University
CPYRGHT
When a trained geographer reports on Latin
America you get a new insight into the problems
of that vast and troubled expanse.
Why hasn't Latin America developed into a
modern duplicate of the United States?
Does it have the raw materials, the land fertil-
ity, other resources needed for greatness?
What's wrong? The people? The weather the
system? Why do countries to the south continue to
stumble from one crisis to another?
Dr. Preston James, prominent geographer and
specialist on Latin America, answers in this inter-
view with "U. S. News & World Report" staff
members in the magazine's conference room.
Q Professor J:imes. slier von look at Latin America as a
geographer, wch:it i, it that you sec there?
A \\`hcn t t'us t t,,l,: r talk, cal "Lucia Aineric'a" he refers
to that part ni di \\ t ?,te, t, i l,'ntisphere that lies south of the
t'uited st itl, Aie>;ieo and inelitding the
Antilles- ;ill of this t' part of Latin America.
You iiitmuss t\oulth'l cigar ?sir the' fact that a lot of
tit(' pet pl,? 0,( It, n n:,c 1.ati,, Von just accept this as it
fact. '1'lu t' ,, lar?, olmlaiiotrN it, this dttersc area, as you
know, that