Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME LATIN AMERICA 85,000-95,000 Latin America II (Ex-Brazil) 65,000-75,000 Latin America III (Ex-Argentina) 75,000-85,000 Latin America IV (Ex-Mexico, Ex-Brazil) 55,000-65,000 Brazil 18,000-22,000 Mexico 9,000-11,000 Caribbean 25,000-35,000 West Indies...
...emancipation of Latin American women has hardly been encouraged by Latin American men. It was not until 1947 that Venezuela and Argentina finally conceded voting rights, 1954 before Colombia followed suit. Brazil waited until 1952 before revamping its civil code to guarantee a married woman the right to choose any profession she wished. But progress is inexorable, and every year the ladies move ahead. To many a male, it now seems they are proceeding by leaps and bounds...
...woman lawyer is no longer a surprise: Peru has some 200. Nor for that matter is a lady engineer or banker. In Rio, Lotta Macedo Scares, 54, a member of one of Brazil's oldest families, spends her days in baggy blue jeans and checkered shirt as a construction executive, bossing a $700,000 park-and-playground project bordering Guanabara Bay. Her compatriot, Sandra Cavalcanti, a Sorbonne-educated linguist, is organizing the National Housing Bank and has plans to finance several million private homes over the next 20 years. "Within three years," she vows, "the National Housing Bank will...
...politics, Brazil's deposed President Joāo Goulart has reason to rue the day women got the vote. Less than a year after Goulart came to power in 1961, Schoolteacher Doña Amélia Bastos, 59, organized the "Women's Campaign for Democracy" to fight his leftist regime, sent her female followers to bombard politicians with telegrams, letters and personal visits. The climax came in Sāo Paulo last March, when Doña Amélia's women staged an anti-Goulart "March with God for Freedom." It drew 800,000 marchers...
...True, Brazil today, along with most of Latin America, belongs to the Hispanic world--its peoples speak Portuguese or Spanish, call themselves Roman Catholics and bear the imprint of various aspects of Hispanic culture. This is a reality with which we must live, and Freyre's explanation of it on the basis of a "Messianic invitation to expand and complement their civilizations" does indeed point out the nature of Hispanic expansion. But to promote this kind of crusading in the twentieth century reeks of neocolonialism, and shows Freyre's basic misunderstanding of and lack of respect for the indigenous cultures...