Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm plots among 70,000 rural families, first using former Trujillo holdings, then buying land with money from an agrarian reform tax. His most worrisome tendency, at least to outside eyes, was his habit of resigning his candidacy when things did not go right, in a manner reminiscent of Brazil's unstable ex-President Janio Quadros. A week before election, Bosch furiously withdrew when a minor Roman Catholic priest said that some of his old writings had a Marxist ring. Bosch confronted the priest in a TV debate, got him to withdraw the charge and used the incident...
...with a country whose perilous economy rests on a wildly spiraling inflation (65% this year alone) and whose foreign policy seems increasingly to be a neutralism in favor of the Communists. Over the past ten years, the U.S. has pumped $1.4 billion worth of aid into Brazil. Unless Brazil makes a genuine effort to solve its problems, said Bobby Kennedy, the U.S. can hardly be expected to pour more millions into an economy heading for chaos and a government catering to Yankee baiters...
Three times this year, the U.S. embassy in Rio protested open attacks against the U.S. by Brazilians in high office and anti-U.S., pro-Communist block prejudice in trade. Ambassador Lincoln Gordon brought to Washington what is described as a "devastating" report on Brazil's muddled affairs. At his press conference a fortnight ago, President Kennedy himself publicly cautioned Brazil about its political and economic instability. In sending Brother Bobby to Brazil, Kennedy made sure that the message would get through loud and clear...
...Hermano Alves, one of Rio's leading editorialists, recalled the stormy sessions in 1961 when President Kennedy's emissary, Adolf Berle. called on Janio Quadros to ask for cooperation on Cuba: "Mr. Berle went to see Janio Quadros and came out looking angry. Thus began Brazil's independent foreign policy. This week...
Kennedy went to see Jango Goulart and came out looking very happy. Thus ended Brazil's independent foreign policy.'' It was hardly that simple. Goulart, a wealthy rancher and political opportunist who climbed to power with the support of labor and the far left, still needs the left's support-at least until a plebiscite next month determines whether he will regain the presidential powers denied him by the distrustful military when he assumed the presidency in September 1961. In public. Goulart takes care not to antagonize the left by seeming to knuckle under...