Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil is famous as the lost continent of economics. It has ignored all the rules, maintained a giddy inflation of 40% to 80% per year, built up a foreign debt of $3 billion, and seemed to be operating on four basic Brazilian principles: 1) God is a Brazilian, 2) confidence is a good racket, 3) paper is the stuff money is made of, and 4) the Americans would always bail them out anyway...
...just landed a prestive contract to supervise a huge construction project in Latin America. The company was picked by the State Department's Agency for International Development's Agency for International Development to plan and engineer a $27 million program of school and medical construction in northeast Brazil. The project will fan out over 1,500,000 sq. mil, and will include the construction of 6,500 elementary schools. 332 health centers, 22 teacher-training centers, 21 normal schools and 47 audio-visual centers plus the renovation of about 4,000 existing calssrooms. Daly will send a staff...
...fading U.S. interest in the Alianza. With Moscoso's departure, Johnson made a Texas-size point of dispelling any such notion. He called all Latin American ambassadors in Washington to the White House this week to discuss Alianza problems. And he will personally sign new loans to Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and a raft of other countries. Said Johnson last week: "In my first official foreign-policy statement as President, I pledged to the representatives of Latin American countries the best efforts of this nation toward the fulfillments of the Alliance for Progress. We're carrying out that pledge...
...Brazil's favorite guessing game for the last four weeks has been "Whither Brizola?" A demagogic leftist Congressman and brother-in-law of deposed President João Goulart, Leonel Brizola had last been seen two days after the revolution, scooting up a Pôrto Alegre street in a green Volkswagen-an angry, rock-throwing crowd chasing him on foot. Then he dropped from sight. Was he hiding out in his home town of Pôrto Alegre? "Impossible," sniffed the Pôrto Alegre military. "We would have captured him." Uruguay? "Impossible," echoed the border patrol...
...voice over a radio transmitter somewhere in the south. When Brizola's wife Neuza joined Brother Jango and his family in their Montevideo exile, she claimed that Brizola was somewhere in Uruguay. But ten days later, a Rio paper front-paged a letter from Leonel "somewhere in Brazil." "I have traveled thousands of kilometers," he wrote, "and visited hundreds and hundreds of homes and ranch es. Everywhere I was received...