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Factors affecting foreign relations; Canadian policy with regard to the Organization of American States, Central America, Cuba, and free trade with the US and Mexico; conference paper.

The author looks at Canada's involvement with Latin America, examining factors that have affected foreign relations in the Americas, providing a brief historical overview and discussing Canadian policy with regard to the Organization of American States, Central America, Cuba and free trade with the USA and Mexico

For too long, Canada has seen this Hemisphere as our house; it is now time to make it our home... That is the purpose of our policy.Joe Clark, Secretary of State for External Affairs (1990)Canada, Long-Oriented toward Europe and the Commonwealth, seeks to expand its involvement in Latin America. The development of a coherent Canadian policy for Latin America will depend on a variety of domestic and external factors, among them the Canada-United States relationship, rapid global change, and North American economic integration. Such a policy must reflect Canadian values and concerns — the importance of the collective welfare as well as individual good, the peaceful negotiation of disputes, and the acceptance of cultural, political, and ideological diversity.

University students in Venezuela constitute about ten percent of the corresponding age group (calculated from Universidad Central de Venezuela 1970: 19, Table 5), and leadership of the country's economic and social development is increasingly in the hands of university-trained professionals. University enrollment has quadrupled since 1958, and young professionals who have graduated over the past fifteen years already represent a majority among university graduates in Venezuela. Research on students and elites, however, in Venezuela as elsewhere in Latin America, has concentrated on their divergent political attitudes while paying scant attention to the transformation of university students into members of the elite.This paper reports on an exploratory survey of student and elite attitudes toward higher education and professional employment in Venezuela. Our findings provide some insight on the extent to which employment of high-level manpower is influenced by modern, achievement-oriented criteria, as compared with traditional, ascriptive criteria.

Vol. 1: 163 S., Tab. - (Special Studies; No. 42/I); Vol. 2: 292 S., Tab. - (Special Studies; No. 42/II)