Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important perhaps than any statistical balance sheet was what seemed to be a new awareness of what the Alianza can and should be. As Brazil's Minister of Planning Roberto Campos observed: "Neither our fate nor our salvation are in the stars. They are within us ourselves." By meeting's end, nearly everyone shared a new, if guarded sense of optimism about the Alianza's prospects. As Thomas Mann, U.S. Under Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, pointed out, "The Alliance has given us a growing awareness of the social and economic problems we all face...
...gnat's noggin. Officially the world's most minuscule denomination, it was-until last week -worth $.0000065, sixty-five one-hundred thousandths of a U.S. cent. Valued at one twentieth of a cent ($.0005) when it was first issued in 1944, the centavo became a victim of Brazil's roaring inflation, and last week the government finally declared it extinct. So is the one-cruzeiro note (worth 100 centavos), which cost four cruzeiros to print. From now on, cruzeiros up to the 500 denomination (value: 33?) will be issued as coins. As for the centavo, it immediately...
Freyre added that Brazil is the country most fit to replace Portugal as leader of the Lusotropical community: "It is in Brazil that Lusotropical civilization has had its most vivid expression," he said...
...defended the March revolution in Brazil as "absolutely necessary. You had an interesting game going on. Goulart thought he was using the Communism but the Communists knew they were using Goulart. If the revolution of March 21 had not come, it is certain that there would have been a Communist take-over in April. Sometimes democracy must use undemocratic means to preserve itself, for there are many ready to take advantage of too liberal a regime--as in Czechoslovakia...
...others: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and of course Cuba...