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Teodoro Moscoso, the Puerto Rican who bosses President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, flew south to Brazil three weeks ago in search of a little progress. By the time he reached Natal, capital of the drought-plagued Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, Moscoso had made up his mind on one thing: Brazil needed help in a hurry and its national government was so bogged down in political crisis that state and regional agencies were his best bet. Last week, after a conference with Rio Grande do Norte Governor Aluizio Alves, Moscoso signed an agreement promising an immediate...
...deal set a pattern for direct aid between the U.S. and a Brazilian state, and it represents quite a victory for Rio Grande's ambitious and aggressive Governor Alves. In his 19 months in office, Alves has drawn up plans to provide food, water, road and schools for his impoverished state. He lacked money. Nearly all U.S. aid for the northeast went to the federal government's SUDENE (Superintendency of Northeast Development), whose aim was long-range development. On a visit to Washington last month, Alves argued that he needed help right now; his starving people were easy...
...shopping around. Producing countries would use their profits during this price freeze to diversify their economies-an effort that some are now making. In Brazil last week bulldozers began bowling over the first of two billion coffee trees slated for destruction under a $70 million government plan to diversify Brazilian agriculture. Part of President Kennedy's recent $20 million loan to Mexico will be used to convert coffee acreage to other crops...
Gilbert himself was safely out of reach in Rio. Though Brazil recently signed its first extradition treaty with the U.S., the Brazilian Congress has not yet ratified...
...trip to the U.S. two months ago, Goulart got President Kennedy's general agreement to a plan under which the utilities would be nationalized for fair value. Brazilian Traction agreed. So did American & Foreign Power Co. Inc., whose eleven subsidiaries, worth $250 million, produce 10% of Brazil's power. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which recently lost a telephone system to Rio Grande do Sul's Leftist Governor Leonel Brizola and is still trying to collect, was noncommittal. But Goulart's decree last week should do something to ease I.T. & T.'s pain. The government promises...